From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Srinivas Kandagatla Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: ssbi: promote the driver to subsys level Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:34:17 +0100 Message-ID: <541A0C69.1030402@linaro.org> References: <1410915594-15599-1-git-send-email-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> <20140917160305.GH30918@lee--X1> <20140917164925.GO30918@lee--X1> <20140917222519.GV30918@lee--X1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140917222519.GV30918@lee--X1> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Lee Jones Cc: linux-arm-msm , Samuel Ortiz , Daniel Walker , David Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org On 17/09/14 23:25, Lee Jones wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Lee Jones wrote: > >> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote: >> >>> On 17 Sep 2014 09:03, "Lee Jones" wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote: >>>> >>>>> This patch promtes the driver to be at subsystem level as this driver >>>>> will be used by gpio controller drivers which inturn are used by many >>>>> platform drivers. >>>> >>>> Any reason why you're not using -EPROBE? >>>> >>> EPROBE is possible but it's going to add few more cycles to boot time. >>> >>> As this driver is a very basic driver on which other drivers depend >>> ensuring the sequence would improve the boot time. >> >> We only tend to promote drivers' init level as a last resort. If >> -EPROBE_DEFER is possible, please use that instead. > > To conclude for any casual/interested observers; I'd be willing to > accept the patch if you can provide some metrics that prove boot-time > is sufficiently increased as a result of using -EPROBE_DEFER. That's fair enough I will get the details.. > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla >>>>> --- >>>>> drivers/mfd/ssbi.c | 7 ++++++- >>>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/ssbi.c b/drivers/mfd/ssbi.c >>>>> index b78942e..4fbe02e 100644 >>>>> --- a/drivers/mfd/ssbi.c >>>>> +++ b/drivers/mfd/ssbi.c >>>>> @@ -331,7 +331,12 @@ static struct platform_driver ssbi_driver = { >>>>> .of_match_table = ssbi_match_table, >>>>> }, >>>>> }; >>>>> -module_platform_driver(ssbi_driver); >>>>> + >>>>> +static int ssbi_init(void) >>>>> +{ >>>>> + return platform_driver_register(&ssbi_driver); >>>>> +} >>>>> +subsys_initcall(ssbi_init); > > Also, as a nasty side-effect of this patch, this module will no longer > be unloadable, which is probably not what you want. > >>>>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); >>>>> MODULE_VERSION("1.0"); >