[PATCH] i2c: exynos5: Initialise Samsung High Speed I2C controller early

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Thu Apr 24 09:25:58 PDT 2014


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 08:18:36PM +0530, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote:
> This patch moves initialization code to subsys_initcall() to ensure
> that the i2c bus is available early so the regulators can be quickly
> probed and available for other devices on their probe() call.

> Such solution has been proposed by Mark Brown to fix the problem of
> the regulators not beeing available on the peripheral device probe():
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2010-March/011971.html

What specifically is this needed for?  We *should* be able to use
deferred probe for most things, but I know that not all subsystems are
able to yet.
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