Messages in this thread | | | From | Tomeu Vizoso <> | Date | Fri, 4 Sep 2015 07:46:24 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 01/18] platform: delay OF device-driver matches until late_initcall |
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On 10 August 2015 at 12:25, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 03:03:14PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> There was some recent thread about how the disabling of unused clocks >> and regulators isn't really safe because after late_initcall_sync more >> drivers can be registered from modules. Furthermore, there's async >> device probes. > > What recent thread and why would that be unsafe?
Sorry, I should have said instead that it's already unpredictable and that from what I have seen during testing these series doesn't make it any worst.
Regards,
Tomeu
> Any driver using a > clock or regulator ought to be making sure that the clock or regulator > is enabled before it tries to use it. The worst that should happen is > that something gets the power bounced during boot which isn't the end of > the world.
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