Re: USB initialisation

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Aug 12 2000 - 14:16:10 EST


On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Russell King wrote:
>
> However, the USB drivers (OHCI) are initialised before this time by
> an explicit call in init/main.c.
>
> Can we initialise the USB hardware drivers via the initcall method,
> or is there some reason why its done the way it is?

I would _much_ prefer to have the USB drivers fully initialized with
"initcalls()". The only reason it's done like it is right now is that I
suspect the USB maintainers didn't realize that you can fully order the
initcall sequence by just chaning the link order. If I get a patch that
removes "usb_init()" from init/main.c, I'll apply it right away.

                Linus

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