From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753347Ab2FLOt3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:49:29 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:53778 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752619Ab2FLOt2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:49:28 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] mfd: Initialise the DB8500 PRCMU driver at core_initcall time Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:49:22 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.5.0-rc1+; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Linus Walleij , grant.likely@secretlab.ca, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linus.walleij@stericsson.com, Samuel Ortiz References: <1339428307-3850-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <201206121259.38807.arnd@arndb.de> <4FD742C9.7090603@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <4FD742C9.7090603@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201206121449.22978.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:FoT1vogn5scv+jkXLLJ19QGzWboIwlGRY91UswhOm/K Adztr9J4wNb6F2v4cGhq1joByOh/GgCAzJ0KpyyLnHpjZ9ySf3 u+x1/8nrLPSLYIEw3zMfXXWJFYt1IxBTjrwM+95iIgPGBeeJdS eoCBjIevhGrYKsFqxfvyPKVlxTNoXlyR/PcHKjz78B4j6+Fv/a NaXfTWYGs/KAoApA17/sNaJoExjkLSGJQaocoV5hetpUVZ0gcU f43woG1ShhW85TdBVooQMG1o5s0oLzZWhH//QJ9x3pFiju9M5Q LJPhJiuaIr7NN1QH7Mmzb2q9+l9tU0rkNDN3CBDnf1YPBb8Vm+ Kero5dSv3rQatII8akpI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 12 June 2012, Lee Jones wrote: > But your suggestion above involves some heavy refactoring of how Device > Tree works. Meanwhile the ab8500 will not work as an IRQ controller > until we either complete the work or use the same solution as we did for > the Nomadik GPIO controller. I think for now at least we should continue > to work on enablement and leave the 'nice to have's until last. We are > doing nothing new here, just bringing the ab8500 IRQ controller into > line with the Nomadik one. Right, I didn't say we should not take your patch, but we should be aware that it's not the solution we want to use in the long run. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:49:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 06/14] mfd: Initialise the DB8500 PRCMU driver at core_initcall time In-Reply-To: <4FD742C9.7090603@linaro.org> References: <1339428307-3850-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <201206121259.38807.arnd@arndb.de> <4FD742C9.7090603@linaro.org> Message-ID: <201206121449.22978.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tuesday 12 June 2012, Lee Jones wrote: > But your suggestion above involves some heavy refactoring of how Device > Tree works. Meanwhile the ab8500 will not work as an IRQ controller > until we either complete the work or use the same solution as we did for > the Nomadik GPIO controller. I think for now at least we should continue > to work on enablement and leave the 'nice to have's until last. We are > doing nothing new here, just bringing the ab8500 IRQ controller into > line with the Nomadik one. Right, I didn't say we should not take your patch, but we should be aware that it's not the solution we want to use in the long run. Arnd