[PATCH 06/14] mfd: Initialise the DB8500 PRCMU driver at core_initcall time

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Jun 12 11:39:38 EDT 2012


On 12/06/12 15:49, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
>> But your suggestion above involves some heavy refactoring of how Device
>> Tree works. Meanwhile the ab8500 will not work as an IRQ controller
>> until we either complete the work or use the same solution as we did for
>> the Nomadik GPIO controller. I think for now at least we should continue
>> to work on enablement and leave the 'nice to have's until last. We are
>> doing nothing new here, just bringing the ab8500 IRQ controller into
>> line with the Nomadik one.
>
> Right, I didn't say we should not take your patch, but we should be
> aware that it's not the solution we want to use in the long run.

I agree with you completely.

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