Re: Controlling Driver Load Order
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed May 26 2010 - 17:04:10 EST
2010/5/26 Robert Emanuele <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On my at91sam9g45 platform I need my i2c drivers to load before the
> framebuffer driver. The i2c drivers control a power management IC
> which is needed to enable the graphics controller.
>
> Is there a way to set up that order?
The usual trick (which you can find in a lot of other I2C busses) is to use
a core_initcall() instead of module_init().
You find the different init levels in include/linux/init.h
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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