On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * zhangfei gao <zhangfei.gao@xxxxxxxxx> [130829 23:36]: >> What about concerns from Wolfram: >> " Other people might be >> depending on subsys_initcall to get I2C active before they want to >> activate, say, PMICs. So, I fear regressions, since deferred probing >> might not be available in the needed places to avoid these regressions." > > There should not be any reason to get a PMIC activated > early on. The system should be booting already at that point, > and the PMIC related init can be done later on. > >> Is it too late using module_init for PMIC? > > You can probably do it as a fix early on during the -rc > cycle too. Of course it needs to be verified to work first :) > Dear Wolfram What's your suggestion about this issue. Use subsys_initcall, deferred probing still exist if base on pin control driver. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html