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From: tony@atomide•com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 01/10] pinctrl: use postcore_initcall
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:38:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121019023818.GO30550@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN1soZy17wO2s7WoRSRod8k5Zh7fuUc1gxhQiHEb0=zwLhyj6A@mail.gmail.com>

* Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail•com> [121018 19:17]:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide•com> wrote:
> >
> > Specifically could you decribe the cases where this issue happens?
> > Also check if one of your client drivers has some early initcall
> > that's no longer needed.
> 
> Yes, the special case is PMIC. Most of PMIC are based on I2C/SPI bus.
> It means that I2C/SPI bus driver should be initialized firstly. For example,
> we could find that PMIC mfd driver are initialized in subsys init call level.
> It means that pinctrl should be initialized earlier than I2C/SPI bus driver.
> Otherwise, pins of I2C bus may not be configured as I2C function since
> pinctrl driver is module init call level.

Hmm, the order in drivers/Makefile is already:

pinctrl/
i2c/

Maybe check that your i2c drivers don't have non-standard initcalls?

Also the i2c drivers may need to return -EPROBE_DEFER?

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-19  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-18  9:06 [PATCH 01/10] pinctrl: use postcore_initcall Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18  9:06 ` [PATCH 02/10] ARM: mmp: select pinctrl driver Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18  9:06 ` [PATCH 03/10] tty: pxa: configure pin Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18 18:21   ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-18 22:20   ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-22  8:45     ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-22 20:26       ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-23  9:26         ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-23  9:37           ` Mark Brown
2012-10-23  9:59             ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-23 11:58               ` Mark Brown
2012-10-24  5:43                 ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-18  9:06 ` [PATCH 04/10] i2c: pxa: configure pins Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18 18:22   ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-18  9:06 ` [PATCH 05/10] i2c: pxa: use devm_kzalloc Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18 22:27   ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-19  1:16     ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18  9:07 ` [PATCH 06/10] pinctrl: single: support gpio request and free Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-19 22:37   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-18  9:07 ` [PATCH 07/10] pinctrl: remove mutex lock in groups show Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18 18:29   ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-18 22:26   ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-22  8:53     ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-18  9:07 ` [PATCH 08/10] pinctrl: single: support pinconf generic Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18 18:30   ` Linus Walleij
2012-10-18 22:29     ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-19  2:23       ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-19  2:40         ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-19 18:44           ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-19 18:53         ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-19 19:13   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-22 10:09     ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-22 17:09       ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-25 23:43         ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-26  1:47           ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-26 17:29             ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-31 22:37           ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18  9:07 ` [PATCH 09/10] ARM: dts: support pinctrl single in pxa910 Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-18  9:07 ` [PATCH 10/10] document: devicetree: bind pinconf in pinctrl single Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-19 22:40   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-18 18:20 ` [PATCH 01/10] pinctrl: use postcore_initcall Linus Walleij
2012-10-18 22:18 ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-18 22:28   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-19  2:16     ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-19  2:38       ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2012-10-19  2:53         ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-10-19 17:41           ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-19  2:24 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD

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