From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] ARM: brcmstb: dts: add a reference DTS for Broadcom 7445
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:04:29 +0100
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Cc: Marc C <marc.ceeeee@gmail.com>, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
        David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
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On Thursday 16 January 2014, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:19:00PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > 1. Other platforms also require the syscon driver to be active before
> > the regular device driver probing starts. Michal Simek has the same
> > issue in the zynq clock driver that you have for SMP initialization.
> > We have talked about this with Mark Brown already, and I think we will
> > find a solution for this in the end, but it's not as straightforward
> > as I first hoped. We can probably use help in this area.
> 
> I thought the solution with deferring registration of the resource for
> dev_get_regmap() until a proper device materialised seemed simple and
> enough, did you folks run into any problems with that?  I had assumed a
> patch was likely to materialise so wasn't worrying about it myself.

I'm still hoping that Michal will do that patch.

	Arnd
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