linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv5] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835

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Date:	Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:27:54 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"Shevchenko, Andriy" <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
	Florian Meier <florian.meier@...lo.de>,
	"Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dmaengine <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:37:54AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> The reason why I was asking about I'm just wondering what we have to do
> with existing drivers. Shall we convert them to be initialized as normal
> platform drivers instead of subsys_initcall?

We should in general be moving in that direction however it does need a
bit of care to make sure that there aren't any dependencies which do
things like discard error codes, fail to check errors or treat errors as
hard failures.

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