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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	"Aaro Koskinen" <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>,
	"Rajendra Nayak" <rnayak@ti.com>,
	"Benoît Cousson" <b-cousson@ti.com>,
	"Michael Buesch" <mb@bu3sch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OMAP: hwmod: add kernel cmdline flag to avoid resetting IP blocks during init
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:43:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110706064326.GI5783@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1107051955450.4217@utopia.booyaka.com>

* Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> [110705 18:55]:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> 
> > For this case, we probably need some board file function to tell the 
> > hwmod code to disregard a device completely, to tell the kernel to 
> > pretend that the device does not exist.
> 
> ... and the other problem here is that we currently probe devices via an 
> arch_initcall(), and the board file init_machine is also an arch_initcall.
> Either we'll need to be very careful about Makefile ordering, or we should 
> just call omap2_init_devices() from the board file init_machine directly.
> The latter makes the most sense to me.

And that can then be passed the list of devices with the special flags
for noreset, disabled and reserved. Then the late_initcall can optionally
reset the rest of the devices.

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-06  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110703010204.19046.85186.stgit@dusk>
2011-07-03  1:02 ` [PATCH] OMAP: hwmod: add kernel cmdline flag to avoid resetting IP blocks during init Paul Walmsley
2011-07-04  8:55   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-07-06  1:42     ` Paul Walmsley
2011-07-06  2:00       ` Paul Walmsley
2011-07-06  6:43         ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2011-07-06 21:01           ` Paul Walmsley
2011-07-06  6:41       ` Tony Lindgren
2011-07-06 20:57         ` Paul Walmsley
2011-07-07  5:27           ` Tony Lindgren

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