linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: pl330: use subsys

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Date:	Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:45:45 +0200
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC:	Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: pl330: use subsys_initcall

On 10/17/2014 02:48 AM, Ray Jui wrote:
> As part of subsystem that many slave drivers depend on, it's more
> appropriate for the pl330 DMA driver to be initialized at
> subsys_initcall than device_initcall

Well, we do have -EPROBE_DEFER these days to handle these kinds of 
dependencies so we no longer have to these kinds of manual init reordering 
tricks.

- Lars
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