linux-kernel - Re: [resend][PATCH 01/16] dw_dmac: call .probe after we have a device in place

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Message-ID: <20130112123055.GX19691@intel.com>
Date:	Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:30:55 -0800
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.jf.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, spear-devel <spear-devel@...t.st.com>
Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH 01/16] dw_dmac: call .probe after we have a
 device in place

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:04:53PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 9 January 2013 21:08, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com> wrote:
> >> >>  subsys_initcall(dw_init);
> > Viresh, Linus
> >
> > We had this discussion sometime back. pl022 use dma and we need DMA before SPI.
> > So if we have pl022 as late_init and dma as device_init. If we have one  more
> > dependency then moving dw_dmac to fs_init should help too. But arch/subsys seems
> > overkill here?
> 
> We probably can't make spi late_init as they may be others waiting for
> it to be in. And
> so did subsys_init for dma. fs is for filesystem? then that may not be
> logically correct too.
well subsys_init doesnt seem to be logical for dma driver too!

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~Vinod
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