Re: [PATCH 1/4] driver core: introduce helper macro initcall_driver()

[Wolfram Sang]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:13:52PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> For some devices especially on platform/I2C/SPI bus, they want to
> be initialized earlier than other devices, so the driver use initcall
> such as subsys_initcall to make this device initialize earlier.

And this is something we want to get rid of in favor of deferred
probing.

> 
> But for those drivers, lots of them just do nothing special in
> xxx_initcall/exit, so introduce a helper macro initcall_driver() to
> eliminate lots of boilerplate just like module_driver() did.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>

So, NACK because using some *_initcall in drivers should not be
encouraged.

Thanks,

   Wolfram

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