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

On 2013年09月30日 17:16, Mark Brown wrote:

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:13:52PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:

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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