[PATCH] ARM: prima2: return rather than panic on missing DT nodes
Rob Herring
robherring2 at gmail.com
Thu May 16 16:18:53 EDT 2013
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Srinivas KANDAGATLA
<srinivas.kandagatla at st.com> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> I was just testing multi_v7_defconfig and noticed that the code is still
> doing early_initcall and postcore_initcalls. Which IMO is NOK for
> multiplatforms.
>
> I was just about to send my patch and just noticed your patch.
>
>
> On 16/05/13 16:50, Rob Herring wrote:
>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>>
>> Missing nodes is a normal condition in multi-platform kernels when we boot
>> on other platforms. So remove the panic and just return if we don't find
>> a DT node.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>> Cc: Barry Song <baohua.song at csr.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mach-prima2/pm.c | 2 +-
>> arch/arm/mach-prima2/rstc.c | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-prima2/pm.c b/arch/arm/mach-prima2/pm.c
>> index 9936c18..a8003e2 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-prima2/pm.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-prima2/pm.c
>> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int __init sirfsoc_of_pwrc_init(void)
>>
> First thing is the mach code should not even attempt to run this
> function in first place.
>
> I think the correct fix for this is to move all the postcore_initcalls
> and early_initcalls to callbacks in MACHINE.
Agreed, but that may cause some init ordering issues. So I'll leave
that to someone that knows this platform and can test it.
Rob
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