[PATCH] clkdev: add support to lookup for early platform device

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Wed Apr 27 23:20:00 EDT 2011


> > > > > 
> > > > Are you willfully ignoring the init_name handling in
> > > > early_platform_driver_probe_id() or something?
> > > > 
> > > > See a636ee7fb35b731ba2b331f6294e809bb6be09c8 for example.
> > > excatly but the issue is that the slab is not availlable yet
> > > see 06fe53beb636294587d8e94ef83c06cef07c21fd
> > > so init_name is still NULL :(
> > > 
> > This is a non-argument until you demonstrate a use case where we have a
> > reasonable expectation for the clock framework to be available and the
> > slab allocator not.
> > 
> > If you're thinking about the SH earlyprintk case then I suggest you look
> > at the sh-sci driver to see how we presently deal with the situation
> > there.
> the sh-sci driver expect the clock will enable for him
> which did IIRC Magnus on sh-mobile
> I do not want to do so
> 
> I've unfortunatly on at91 I use the early device during the map_io
> 
> so the slab is available and bootmem either
sorry none of theem is available yet

Best Regards,
J.



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