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