Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:28:14 +0800 | From | Hanjun Guo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] driver core: introduce helper macro initcall_driver() |
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On 2013年09月30日 18:15, Wolfram Sang 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. > 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@linaro.org> > So, NACK because using some *_initcall in drivers should not be > encouraged.
Ok, got it. I agree with you, *_initcall in module driver is really confusing people :)
Thanks Hanjun > > Thanks, > > Wolfram >
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