linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] driver core: introduce helper macro initcall

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Message-ID: <20130930091622.GW19304@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:16:23 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@...il.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Libo Chen <libo.chen@...wei.com>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	patches@...aro.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] driver core: introduce helper macro initcall_driver()

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:13:52PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> For some devices especially on platform/I2C/SPI bus, they want to
> be initialized earlier than other devices, so the driver use initcall
> such as subsys_initcall to make this device initialize earlier.

We're trying to move away from needing to do this and to using deferred
probing to resolve init ordering issues.  Should we not be able to
convert the drivers to module_X_driver()?

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