Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:47:04 +0300 | From | Felipe Balbi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework |
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Hi,
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:02:52PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: > >>>>+ ret = -EINVAL; > >>>>+ goto err0; > >>>>+ } > >>>>+ > >>>>+ if (!phy_class) > >>>>+ phy_core_init(); > >>> > >>>why don't you setup the class on module_init ? Then this would be a > >>>terrible error condition here :-) > >> > >>This is for the case where the PHY driver gets loaded before the PHY > >>framework. I could have returned EPROBE_DEFER here instead I thought > >>will have it this way. > > > >looks a bit weird IMO. Is it really possible for PHY to load before ? > > yeah. it actually happened when I tried with beagle and had all the > modules as built-in. Because twl4030 has subsys_initcall(), it loads > before PHY framework.
that's a bug in twl4030.
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