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

[Hanjun Guo]

On 2013å09æ30æ 17:16, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.
> We're trying to move away from needing to do this and to using deferred
> probing to resolve init ordering issues.  Should we not be able to
> convert the drivers to module_X_driver()?
Hi Mark,

Thanks for your comments.

That would be great to move away *_initcall in module driver, and
this patch set is not necessary if we can use deferred probe to solve
all the init order issues.

Thanks
Hanjun
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