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SubjectRe: [PATCH] i2c: exynos5: Initialise Samsung High Speed I2C controller early
On 04/24/2014 09:55 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 08:18:36PM +0530, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote:
>> This patch moves initialization code to subsys_initcall() to ensure
>> that the i2c bus is available early so the regulators can be quickly
>> probed and available for other devices on their probe() call.
>
>> Such solution has been proposed by Mark Brown to fix the problem of
>> the regulators not beeing available on the peripheral device probe():
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2010-March/011971.html
>
> What specifically is this needed for? We *should* be able to use
> deferred probe for most things, but I know that not all subsystems are
> able to yet.
>

DRM-Exynos is one such sub-system right now that doesn't handle deferred
probe well. That is one of the reasons for this patch.

--
Tushar Behera


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