From: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
Jesper Nilsson <jespern@axis.com>,
linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core eeprom.c code
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:35:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150615073501.GO26605@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434315921-1198-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:05:21PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The eeprom.c code is compiled based on the Kconfig setting
> ETRAX_I2C_EEPROM, which is bool. So the code is either built in
> or absent. It will never be modular, so using module_init as an
> alias for __initcall is rather misleading.
>
> Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
> init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd
> have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
> would be a worse thing.
>
> Direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs prioritized ones.
> Use of device_initcall is consistent with what __initcall
> maps onto, and hence does not change the init order, making the
> impact of this change zero. Should someone with real hardware
> for boot testing want to change it later to arch_initcall or
> something different, they can do that at a later date.
>
> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Looks good, I'll take it in the CRIS-tree.
> Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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2015-06-14 21:05 [PATCH] cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core eeprom.c code Paul Gortmaker
2015-06-15 7:35 ` Jesper Nilsson [this message]
2015-06-15 13:44 ` Paul Gortmaker
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