Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1517532

Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization

Show all headers | View raw

Hi Florian,

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/08/2016 11:35 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Currently the renesas-irqc driver uses postcore_initcall().
>>
>> However, the new CPG/MSSR driver uses subsys_initcall(). Hence the
>> IRQC's probe will be deferred, which causes the Micrel Ethernet PHY to
>> not find its interrupt on R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G, as the of_mdio subsystem
>> does not support deferred probe yet.
>
> Is not that the more correct fix to implement though?

Sure it is. But nothing has happened since this was reported ca. 1 year ago.
Cfr. "of_mdiobus_register_phy() and deferred probe"
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/22/377

My MDIO foo is not that strong...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

[PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> - 2016-11-08 20:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-11-08 20:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-11-08 21:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 20:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-11-09 20:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2016-11-09 10:10 +0100

csiph-web