Re: [PATCH] clk: probe common clock drivers earlier

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jul 15 2016 - 17:54:06 EST


This is still in my "what happened to this" patch list..

I'm dropping it as I'll be without internet for a week and I'm trying
to make sure my pile is empty, but I'd like somebody to take a look at
it (Greg?) since it feels right to me.

Linus

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Several SoCs implement platform drivers for clocks rather than
> CLK_OF_DECLARE(). Clocks should come earlier because they are
> prerequisites for many of other drivers. It will help to mitigate
> EPROBE_DEFER issues.
>
> Also, drop the comment since it does not look valuable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> drivers/Makefile | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
> index 8f5d076..a2a4922 100644
> --- a/drivers/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/Makefile
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_REGULATOR) += regulator/
>
> # reset controllers early, since gpu drivers might rely on them to initialize
> obj-$(CONFIG_RESET_CONTROLLER) += reset/
> +obj-y += clk/
>
> # tty/ comes before char/ so that the VT console is the boot-time
> # default.
> @@ -141,8 +142,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VHOST_RING) += vhost/
> obj-$(CONFIG_VLYNQ) += vlynq/
> obj-$(CONFIG_STAGING) += staging/
> obj-y += platform/
> -#common clk code
> -obj-y += clk/
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_MAILBOX) += mailbox/
> obj-$(CONFIG_HWSPINLOCK) += hwspinlock/
> --
> 1.9.1
>