Re: [PATCH 1/4] mfd: max14577: Add max14577 MFD driver core

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Nov 14 2013 - 06:33:45 EST


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:53:51AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On 2013-11-14 11:24, Mark Brown wrote:

> >Modern systems should be able to use deferred probing to resolve these
> >dependencies, subsys_initcall() is mostly there for legacy reasons and
> >new systems ought to be able to move away from it.

> The main problem here is usb gadget subsystem, which simply doesn't support
> deferred probe yet. UDC driver (which uses those regulators) need to be
> initialized before usb gadget driver (i.e. mass storage or cdc ethernet)
> has been registered.

OK, that makes sense - OK for the time being.

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