Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: mediatek: convert to arch_initcall

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On January 1, 2016 3:56:01 AM EET, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> It's fairly clear that there's at least a case for simplifying the
>>> existing practice here, for example by moving everything into a
>>single
>>> (perhaps aliased) initcall rather than by randomly picking a level
>>per
>>> system or by actually fiddling with the link ordering if the case is
>>> sufficiently clear that pinctrl in general ought to load earlier than
>>it
>>> does.
>>
>>Nothing above sounds like a reason not to merge this patch, however.
>>Why should we block useful patches that use existing tools to fix real
>>architecture-specific issues until new infrastructure is merged that
>>solves general problems?
>
> I think what Mark means is, that we define some pinctrl_initcall which
> is a macro to subsys_initcall (or arch_initcall or similar). We apply this
> to all pinctrl drivers including the one from Mediatek. This way at least
> we have a common method and changing the behaviour in the future is
> easier to handle.

That would be pinctrl_soc_initcall() in that case. Just pinctrl_initcall()
would assume it's for all drivers and there is a bunch of them that are just
fine with simple device_initcall()s.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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