Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:39:43 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCHv5] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> |
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 05:43:45PM +0000, Shevchenko, Andriy wrote: >> >> > > +module_platform_driver(bcm2835_dma_driver); >> > >> > Is it possible to get driver initialized after that one that uses it? >> >> Doesn't quite make sense. If you're asking whether other drivers can >> try to make use of this driver before it's initialised, then the answer >> is no. We have mechanisms to cope with that - see deferred probing.
The reason why I was asking about I'm just wondering what we have to do with existing drivers. Shall we convert them to be initialized as normal platform drivers instead of subsys_initcall?
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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