On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 04:11:47PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Move pinctrl initialization earlier in boot so that real devices can find > > their pctldev without probe deferring. > (...) > > -module_init(mtk_pinctrl_init); > > +arch_initcall(mtk_pinctrl_init); > So I see why you're doing this (because of wanting to avoid nasty boot > probe deferrals, right?) and I'm going to apply it, because the work > with probe ordering is still in the works, but I'd like some general > ARM people to come in with opinions. I really don't think we should be applying this sort of stuff unless things are actively broken right now. It's a bit of a rabbit hole we could spend a long time going down tweaking things for different systems in the same way that tweaking the link order can be and it masks the underlying issues.
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