Am Mittwoch, den 08.10.2014, 21:44 -0500 schrieb dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > There are certain drivers that are required to get loaded very early using > arch_initcall. An example of such a driver is the SOCFPGA's FPGA bridge driver. > This driver has to get loaded early because it needs to enable FPGA components > that are connected to the bridge. > > This FPGA bridge driver will using the reset controller API to toggle it's > reset bits, thus, it needs the reset driver to be loaded as early as possible > in order for it to get used properly. Without knowing the details, this sounds like the wrong approach. Can't the bridge driver return -EPROBE_DEFER until the reset controller is available? regards Philipp -- 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
