linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] parport: use subsys

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Message-ID: <20160430162405.GA25043@sudip-laptop>
Date:	Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:24:05 +0100
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parport: use subsys_initcall

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:56:10PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> The drivers which depends on parport may sometimes try to iniitialize
> and register with parport bus even before parport has actually
> registered with the device layer.
> The simplest solution is to mark the init function as subsys_initcall()
> and load the parport before the other drivers loads.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@...ethink.co.uk>
> ---

Hi Greg,
A gentle ping.
I know you are going to close your trees soon. And maybe we don't have
enough time to have this tested on linux-next.

regards
sudip