On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:21:40PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 11/11/2012 05:22 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > Another solution that was discussed was whether to move > > the default pinctrl handle and state grab to the device > > core as an optional field in struct device itself, but > > I'd like to first propose this less intrusive mechanism. > I think doing that approach makes a lot more sense; wouldn't it > completely avoid the issues with deferred probe that this notifier-based > method can't solve? It would also be very much in line with e.g. > dev_get_regmap() - if every resource that a driver required were handled > like that, then deferred probe could be significantly isolated into the > driver core rather than in every driver... I have to say that I agree with this, notifiers seem to make life more complicated for limited gain. Otherwise I guess we could enhance notifiers so that they're able to trigger deferrals?
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