linux-kernel - Re: How to ensure other module/driver is initialized?

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Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:51:12 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@...il.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to ensure other module/driver is initialized?

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@...il.com> wrote:

> Device tree presents even greater problems.  It's not clear to me that
> device tree even works with x86_64, and even if it does, I'm almost
> positive that none of the "generic" distributions are going to support
> it.
>
> If my understanding of device tree is inaccurate, please do let me
> know.  I'd definitely like to replace the "board" module with a
> device tree description if it's possible.

Sorry for my ignorance. I thought this was some ARM or MIPS thing.

It should indeed come in as a board file for x86 systems,
unless they have ACPI to do what DT does on other platforms,
which modern systems do.

The way on these systems is to put a file in
drivers/platform/x86/* I think, but I know too little about
x86 for that.

I do think it'll be accepted upstream nevertheless, we do not
really count users but rather check whether the code is nice
and maintainable.

Yours,
Linus Walleij