Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:02:52PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> >>>>+		ret = -EINVAL;
> >>>>+		goto err0;
> >>>>+	}
> >>>>+
> >>>>+	if (!phy_class)
> >>>>+		phy_core_init();
> >>>
> >>>why don't you setup the class on module_init ? Then this would be a
> >>>terrible error condition here :-)
> >>
> >>This is for the case where the PHY driver gets loaded before the PHY
> >>framework. I could have returned EPROBE_DEFER here instead I thought
> >>will have it this way.
> >
> >looks a bit weird IMO. Is it really possible for PHY to load before ?
> 
> yeah. it actually happened when I tried with beagle and had all the
> modules as built-in. Because twl4030 has subsys_initcall(), it loads
> before PHY framework.

that's a bug in twl4030.

-- 
balbi

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