* Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [170814 13:29]: > * Dave Gerlach <d-gerlach@xxxxxx> [170814 12:53]: > > Again, I am not saying touching status disabled nodes is the right way to do it, > > just that currently we do for the reasons described above and if we stop > > touching the nodes marked disabled we need a new solution. > > Well I see the solution being the following steps: > > 1. Fix up the few problem drivers to be able to bail out if > it's essential resources are missing > > 2. Remove use of status = "disabled" unless the SoC internal > device is truly not accessible for the kernel > > 3. Start using "fail-incomplete" so drivers know to bail > out early in a generic way if set And if really needed, we can specifically tell to kill some hwmod. We already have "ti,no-reset-on-init", "ti,no-idle-on-init", and "ti,no-idle". So we could add "ti,disable-on-init" or something similar. I'd rather see that as the default though for devices that are accessible, so not sure if that is needed. Anyways, just something to consider. 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
