On 10 August 2015 at 12:25, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 03:03:14PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> There was some recent thread about how the disabling of unused clocks >> and regulators isn't really safe because after late_initcall_sync more >> drivers can be registered from modules. Furthermore, there's async >> device probes. > > What recent thread and why would that be unsafe? Sorry, I should have said instead that it's already unpredictable and that from what I have seen during testing these series doesn't make it any worst. Regards, Tomeu > Any driver using a > clock or regulator ought to be making sure that the clock or regulator > is enabled before it tries to use it. The worst that should happen is > that something gets the power bounced during boot which isn't the end of > the world. -- 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
