On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:30:29AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Matt Porter wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:08:18AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:19:07AM -0500, Matt Porter wrote: > > > > > > > Voltage regulators are needed very early due to deferred probe > > > > being incompatible with built-in USB gadget drivers. > > > > > > What does it need to fix those instead? > > > > [added Alan/Felipe for more insight] > > > > Discussion on that topic came about from this submission: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg94217.html > > > > End of it is: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg94731.html > > > > We can either add to the many drivers that already do subsys_initcall() > > for similar reasons...or I can drop this from the series and add gadget > > probe ordering to my TODO list. > > > > In short, it can't be a late_initcall() hack like the original post and > > really could be solved by converting to a real bus (and letting > > deferred probe do its job)..but Alan voiced concerns about that. > > Don't worry too much about what I said. If adding a "gadget" bus will > solve the problem in an appropriate way, and if nobody else objects > (particularly Felipe, who is on vacation now), then go for it. Ok, I'll take a look at what can be done and restart the conversation when Felipe returns. Wolfram: given this, as I mentioned, I'll simply drop this patch from the series and work around it for now. This will probably make Lee and Mark happy to not see subsys_initcall() in the MFD/regulator drivers as well. -Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html