[PATCH V2 1/6] pinctrl: pinctrl-single: use arch_initcall and module_exit

Vishwanathrao Badarkhe, Manish manishv.b at ti.com
Tue Jan 29 07:02:54 EST 2013


Hi Linus,

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 16:29:54, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Vishwanathrao Badarkhe, Manish <manishv.b at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > Currently, I2C driver gets probed before pinctrl driver.
> > To achieve I2C pin muxing via pinctrl driver before I2C probe get 
> > called, register pinctrl driver in arch_initcall.
> > Also, add module_exit to unregister pinctrl driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vishwanathrao Badarkhe, Manish <manishv.b at ti.com>
> 
> So your I2C driver is not returning -EPROBE_DEFER if it cannot find its pins?
Yes. In Davinci I2C driver, it's not implemented to return -EPROBE_DEFER if it 
can't find its pins.

Please see below discussion for more details: 
https://patchwork2.kernel.org/patch/2031321/
 
> 
> Hm, well I can live with this, if Tony ACKs it.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
> 


Regards, 
Manish



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