Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2014 12:26:53 +0200 | From | Wolfram Sang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i2c: mux: Use subsys_initcall for the i2c-arb-gpio-challenge |
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 08:35:22PM +0530, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote: > From: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> > > Since many drivers rely on FETs that live behind this arbitrator, they > can't successfully probe until after the arbitrator comes up. They > ought to handle things properly with EPROBE_DEFER and still work, but > that has some downsides: > > 1. Those drivers don't come up till later in the boot process. That > really not so nice for the LCD--we want that to init early. > 2. Some drivers have bugs and don't handle EPROBE_DEFER. Those > drivers should be fixed but not all of them have been fixed yet. > HDMI is one example since DRM doesn't really have good support for > deferring probes. > > With this change We end up using the same init level as the main i2c bus. > > Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> > Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/57007 > Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> > Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <ch.naveen@samsung.com>
Same here. Unless we have a clear understanding that this is the only acceptable solution in mainline, this is really an out-of-tree patch.
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