* Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [151130 08:29]: > We want to be able to probe a few selected device drivers before hwmod > code populates the clocks in omap_hwmod_setup_all(). This allows us to > convert most of the clock drivers into regular device drivers. > > We only need a few minimal clock drivers early for the system timers to > select between the 32KiHz clock and the high frequency oscillator. > > With these changes, initializing the clock drivers can be just done at > core_initcall time with something like: > > np = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "plls"); > if (np) > of_platform_populate(np, NULL, NULL, NULL); > > And then these clocks will be available for the interconnect code to use. > > Having most of the clock drivers being regular device drivers allows > us to use the nice things like devm_* functions and dev_err and dev_dbg. > As an extra bonus, this also allows us to develop the clock drivers for > new SoCs as loadable modules initially for cases where we can boot up > the system based on the bootloader configured clocks. > > To do this, let's change the core_initcalls to postcore_initcall under > mach-omap2. FYI I'm applying this one into omap-for-v4.5/soc today, the first patch in this series needs more work as discussed. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
