On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Brandon Anderson <brandon.anderson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > An AMBA device will be probed once two things have occured: 1) ACPI has > registered a device, and 2) the driver has registered itself as an AMBA > driver. Since several drivers register themselves very early on, the > probe will happen as soon as ACPI registers the device. If a device > depends on a clock, the clock must be probed before ACPI registers the > device. This means that the clock definition must be encountered first in the > DSDT file, and the clock driver must already be loaded when this happens. > > There are other potential solutions, with this solution registering the clock > driver very early in the boot process to avoid changes to other drivers. > > > Signed-off-by: Brandon Anderson <brandon.anderson@xxxxxxx> You guys really need to start posting these patches to a wider audience than just linux-acpi. At least cc the clock maintainer on clock patches, and since these are ARM related, the linux-arm-kernel list should be cc:d too. -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
