Hi Arnd, Greg, This patch series contains two RFC improvements for the SoC bus and soc_device_match(). Both are the result of investigations for handling different SoC revisions in the Renesas R-Car SYSC driver, which manages PM Domains and thus needs to be initialized from an early_initcall. Thanks for your comments! Geert Uytterhoeven (2): [RFC] base: soc: Let soc_device_match() return no match when called too early [RFC] base: soc: Allow early registration of a single SoC device drivers/base/soc.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds