Make them be at the top of the device tree by adding them early. That's
the whole point of the device tree after all - we have an ordering that is
enforced by its topology, and that we sort by when things were added.
Right now the way things work is (iirc - somebody like Greg should
double-check me) is that we add all devices to the power list at
device_add() time by traversing the devices fromt he root all the way out,
and doing a device_add() which does a device_pm_add(), which in turn adds
it to the power-management list - so that the list is always topologically
sorted.
So the only thing that needs to be done is to make sure that we add the
timer devices early during bootup - something we have to do *anyway*. If a
device is added early in bootup, that automatically means that it will be
suspended late, and resumed early - because we maintain that order all the
way through..
Linus
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