From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Viresh Kumar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] cpufreq: dt: Create platform device from generic code Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:11:24 +0530 Message-ID: <20160325044124.GN22062@vireshk-i7> References: <5800397.rNERvs0XYE@wuerfel> <20160324140600.GM22062@vireshk-i7> <4531000.a0G78BGFu1@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f182.google.com ([209.85.192.182]:33714 "EHLO mail-pf0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751866AbcCYEl2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:41:28 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 4so74663408pfd.0 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4531000.a0G78BGFu1@wuerfel> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, Rafael Wysocki , arnd.bergmann@linaro.org, kgene.kim@samsung.com, heiko@sntech.de, xf@rock-chips.com, mmcclint@codeaurora.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On 24-03-16, 15:16, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Hmm, can you give an example where this is needed? I don't remember them, but I am quite sure that I have seen people asking for that support again and again. > I assume you are > thinking of some clock controller or regulator that gets initialized > after the cpufreq driver, right? Yeah. > Are there any that are in loadable modules, rather than just later > in the init sequence for built-in drivers? Maybe both, don't remember. Sorry. Over that, independent of what the users are doing today, I think its important to support defer probing for anyone that wants to use it. > I think we do care about compatibility there, but there are clearly > other ways to handle the special case for opp-v1 if we want to. Okay, and what are those ? There is only one platform which has used the pdata, mvebu. -- viresh