On Thursday, August 30, 2018, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > > AFAIK no attempt was done to support EPROBE_DEFER with *_OF_DECLARE. > > IMHO it would be pointless, as it would be much easier to just switch to > real > > platform drivers. > > May be, may be not. > > From your point of view, the change is simple because it touches only a > single driver. > > From my point of view, the change implies a split in the approach while > I'm trying to unify the drivers little by little and there are hundred > of them. > > It is not the first time we face this situation and Bartosz Golaszewski > has a similar problem [1]. > > We have all the frameworks we need to solve this properly but I would > like something we can propagate to all drivers (OF and !OF) so we end up > with unified code. > > It is time we clearly state the dependency issues and we find a proper > way to solve it.
On Thursday, August 30, 2018, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > This was my latest proposal for early platform drivers: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/11/488 > > I still intend on continuing this work, I just don't have the time right > now. Daniel, So what is your final thought on this? The current OSTM driver uses TIMER_OF_DECLARE and that basically means it will never work with my new SoC. For now, can I change the driver to register a standard platform driver in subsys_initcall like the other Renesas timer drivers? Or do I have to live without a timer in my system for the unseeable future? If there every becomes a fix for this resource dependence, I'll be happy to modify the OSTM driver to comply. But at the moment, I'm stuck with nothing. Thanks, Chris
