linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] -mm: clocksource: increase initcall priority

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Date:	Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:51:18 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, johnstul@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] -mm: clocksource: increase initcall priority

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 00:40 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> writes:
> 
> > Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c
> > +++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c
> > @@ -174,4 +174,4 @@ pm_good:
> >  	return clocksource_register(&clocksource_acpi_pm);
> >  }
> >  
> > -module_init(init_acpi_pm_clocksource);
> > +postcore_initcall(init_acpi_pm_clocksource);
> 
> Current code is assumeing DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY() is called before
> init_acpi_pm_clocksource().
> 
> We'll need to change it.

We can add a call to clocksource_rating_change() inside
acpi_pm_need_workaround(), are there deeper dependencies?

Daniel

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