Re: [PATCH]PCIE ASPM support - takes 2

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 07:22:25 EST


On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:07:02PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > +
> > > +/* Called after ACPI is enabled */
> > > +static int __init acpi_pcie_support_init(void)
> > > +{
> > > + pcie_aspm_init();
> > > + return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +fs_initcall(acpi_pcie_support_init);
> >
> > Is there any reason to put this in here instead of just making
> > pcie_aspm_init an initcall?
> yes, this will evaluate some ACPI methods, so must be called after ACPI
> is initialized, which is a sub_system call

I wasn't saying that you should change it from being an fs_initcall. I
was saying that you might want to consider deleting this function and
adding

fs_initcall(pcie_aspm_init);

in the file that defines pcie_aspm_init.

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