Hi Arnd, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven > <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven >>> I'd prefer to not have to do the early registration at all and have fewer >>> special cases. Can you list a specific example that requires this? >> >> The specific example is the Renesas R-Car SYSC driver, which manages PM >> Domains and thus needs to be initialized from an early_initcall. > > Ok, and what prevents us from using information in DT to detect which > variant we have? Is this a case of absolutely having to know the exact > hardware revision at the time of initialization, or is it just to simplify the > implementation of the SYSC driver? The former. Preproduction versions of R-Car H3 have an additional power area, which no longer exists on H3 ES2.0. 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