[PATCH v5 1/6] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Thu Apr 4 04:56:48 EDT 2013


Hi,

On Wednesday 03 April 2013 09:17 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:02:52PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>>>>> +		ret = -EINVAL;
>>>>>> +		goto err0;
>>>>>> +	}
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +	if (!phy_class)
>>>>>> +		phy_core_init();
>>>>>
>>>>> why don't you setup the class on module_init ? Then this would be a
>>>>> terrible error condition here :-)
>>>>
>>>> This is for the case where the PHY driver gets loaded before the PHY
>>>> framework. I could have returned EPROBE_DEFER here instead I thought
>>>> will have it this way.
>>>
>>> looks a bit weird IMO. Is it really possible for PHY to load before ?
>>
>> yeah. it actually happened when I tried with beagle and had all the
>> modules as built-in. Because twl4030 has subsys_initcall(), it loads
>> before PHY framework.
>
> that's a bug in twl4030.

right. Will fix it.

Thanks
Kishon



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