linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core eeprom.c code

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Message-ID: <20150615073501.GO26605@axis.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:35:01 +0200
From:	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mikael Starvik <starvik@...s.com>,
	Jesper Nilsson <jespern@...s.com>, linux-cris-kernel@...s.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core
 eeprom.c code

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:05:21PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The eeprom.c code is compiled based on the Kconfig setting
> ETRAX_I2C_EEPROM, which is bool.  So the code is either built in
> or absent.  It will never be modular, so using module_init as an
> alias for __initcall is rather misleading.
> 
> Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
> init.h into module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd
> have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
> would be a worse thing.
> 
> Direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs prioritized ones.
> Use of device_initcall is consistent with what __initcall
> maps onto, and hence does not change the init order, making the
> impact of this change zero.   Should someone with real hardware
> for boot testing want to change it later to arch_initcall or
> something different, they can do that at a later date.
> 
> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@...s.com>

Looks good, I'll take it in the CRIS-tree.

> Cc: linux-cris-kernel@...s.com
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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               Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nilsson@...s.com
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