From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@st.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 4/8] phy: Initialize phy core with subsys_initcall
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:25:53 +0100
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On Friday 31 January 2014, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> > Having the PHY driver get initialized after the PCI root driver should
> > also work, but it requires correct handling of -EPROBE_DEFER: if phy_get
> 
> I had issue with phy-core driver getting initialized after pcie rc
> driver. I found a kernel crash, as devm_phy_get was called before
> phy_class was created. I think this too need to be fixed, we should
> not see a crash.

Yes, agreed. This should be trivial to do though.

> Anyway, I will keep spear phy and rc driver both with module_init and
> -EPROBE_DEFER implementation.

Ok.

	Arnd
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