Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

[Patrick Gefre]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:36:15PM -0600, Patrick Gefre wrote:
>
> > > Please kill ioc4_ide_init as it's completely unused and make 
> > > ioc4_serial_init
> > > a normal module_init() handler in ioc4_serial, there's no need to call
> > > them from the generic driver.
> >
> > I want ioc4_serial_init called before pci_register_driver() if I make it a
> > module_init() call I have no control over order ??
>
>
> For the modular case it'd always be executed before because the module
> must be loaded first, for the builtin case it'd depend on the link order.
>
> Let's leave it as-is, it's probably safer.


Latest version with review mods:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/033-ioc4-support

Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@xxxxxxx>
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