On 18/02/2019 09:53, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 17:35, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 15/02/2019 13:52, Marek Szyprowski wrote: >>> Exynos Multi-Core Timer driver (exynos_mct) must be started before ARM >>> Architected Timers (arch_timer), because they both share some common >>> hardware blocks (global system counter) and turning on MCT is needed >>> to get ARM Architected Timer working properly. Increase MCT timer rating >>> and hotplug priority over ARM Archictected timer driver to achieve that. >> >> This is a hack. >> >> There are mechanisms to handle this kind of dependency. >> >> eg. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/driver-api/device_link.html > > Hi Daniel, > > Are you sure you have proper devices at this point so you can order > dependencies with device links? No, it was an example to show there are mechanism to handle the dependencies. Agree it is a confusing example. -- <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook | <http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter | <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog
