Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: omap: convert to module_platform_driver()

From: Kevin Hilman
Date: Mon Jun 03 2013 - 16:59:41 EST


Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> writes:

> The OMAP I2C driver has a relation to pinctrl-single driver. As result,
> its probe will be deferred during system boot until late init time,
> because the pinctrl-single is initizalized as moudle/device init time.
> This, in turn, will delay initialization of all I2C devices (like mfd,
> I2C regulators and etc.) and cause boot delay (more over, it can broken
> initialization of drivers which are not ready to use deferred probe
> mechanism yet, for example DSS).
>
> There are no sense to keep OMAP I2C initialization on subsys init layer
> any more, hence shift it to module/device layer where the i2c <-->
> pinctrl-single dependency is resolved in drivers/Makefile now.
>
> Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Ben Dooks (embedded platforms)" <ben-linux@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-i2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>

Testing this patch with PATCH 1/2, the twl_rtc driver fails to correctly
initialize on OMAP3:

twl_rtc rtc.22: hctosys: invalid date/time

instead of the expected result:

twl_rtc rtc.22: setting system clock to 2000-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (946684800)

so something is still not right for the init sequence.

Kevin
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