[PATCH 1/9] spi/pxa2xx: don't use subys initcall for driver init

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Wed Nov 24 10:43:46 EST 2010


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:30:37AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:

> It would be easy enough to defer cpufreq initialization based on some
> platform defined criteria.  It's just an initcall.  However, I don't

Though it'd be much better to fix the thing where cpufreq doesn't have a
device anyway.

> know what the impact area is for subsystems that depend on cpufreq.
> Are there drivers that depend on cpufreq before initialized?

OMAP?  It'd be fairly surprising if something were to have a strict
dependency, though - more likely to be notifiers I'd expect.  Usually
cpufreq comes up fairly late.



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