Hi There are also many other devices like display and mmc and even the cpu(if the cpu want run a high frequency when boot up)need to get power supply from PMIC, so it is better to load PMIC as early as possible.Built-in is a better choice. On 2015?09?07? 18:24, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-07 at 11:26 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> Hello Sjoerd, >> >> On 09/06/2015 10:16 PM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: >>> Enable Rockchip I2C, SPI, PWM, thermal drivers. >>> >>> Builtin are: >>> * I2C as it often controls the pmic. >> Having I2C as a module will cause more probe deferrals due missing >> regulators and slow down the boot but it should not cause issues. >> Or am I missing something? >> >> In fact, I think even the PMIC could be built as a module. > It could in principle. However as a lot of other drivers do need the > regulators provided by the pmic, they'll be deferred until that driver > is loaded. So e.g. with the i2c/pmic drivers as a module you cannot > boot to an NFS rootfs without using an initramfs. > >> But I don't have a strong opinion on this so patch looks good: >> >> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at osg.samsung.com> >> >> Best regards,