* Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [111123 10:34]: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:55:19AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [111123 09:31]: > > > > Keep the clk API as a fundamental thing which should be initialized early > > > so we don't have to invent new clk APIs to get around its unavailability. > > > What else are you aware of that is really needed early for clocks other > > than clockevent? > > If nothing else we'd have to resolve all the device probe ordering > issues (Grant's patches seem a bit stalled) and convert all the systems > using the API to handle deferring probes until their clocks appear. > Using an early initcall of some kind would help with that but it does > seem like a lot of trouble and I'd expect it'll end up getting forced in > on most systems anyway. Yes the ordering depends on the system. In any case, initcalls are not super early compared to setup_timer. 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
