netdev - RE: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/8] net: hns3: Add support of the HNAE3 framework

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Date:   Sat, 17 Jun 2017 11:18:49 +0000
From:   Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen)" <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        huangdaode <huangdaode@...ilicon.com>,
        "lipeng (Y)" <lipeng321@...wei.com>,
        "mehta.salil.lnk@...il.com" <mehta.salil.lnk@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/8] net: hns3: Add support of the HNAE3
 framework

Hi Andrew,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@...n.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 2:38 AM
> To: Salil Mehta
> Cc: davem@...emloft.net; Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen); huangdaode; lipeng (Y);
> mehta.salil.lnk@...il.com; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org; Linuxarm
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 2/8] net: hns3: Add support of the
> HNAE3 framework
> 
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:10:29AM +0100, Salil Mehta wrote:
> > +static int __init hnae3_init(void)
> > +{
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> 
> ..
> 
> > +subsys_initcall(hnae3_init);
> 
> And the point of this is?
> 
>     Andrew
This looks weird but not sure how we could have made sure HNAE is available before other
2 drivers could have loaded. Changing into module_init() means two other modules (dependent
upon hnae) if loaded first will experience load time linking problems. Do you think this
is okay? 

Thanks
Salil