[PATCH v9 0/5] Add runtime PM support for clocks (on Exynos SoC example)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Marek,

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski at samsung.com> wrote:
> Patches for clocks drivers change the way the clock provider is initialized.
> Instead of CLK_OF_DECLARE based initialization, a complete platform device driver
> infrastructure is being used. This is needed to let driver to use runtime PM
> feature and integrate with generic power domains. The side-effect of this change
> is a delay in clock provider registeration during system boot, so early
> initialized drivers might get EPROBEDEFER error when requesting their clocks.
> This was an issue for IOMMU drivers, but IOMMU deferred probe support has been
> finally merged to v4.13-rc1 and now it is handled correctly.

Any chances you have PHY devices falling back to polling due to this,
cfr. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9734175/?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert (collecting momentum for the patch
referenced above)

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