Re: Representing Embedded Architectures at the Kernel Summit

[Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>]

James Bottomley wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We've got to the point where there are simply too many embedded
> architectures to invite all the arch maintainers to the kernel summit.
> So, this year, we thought we'd do embedded via topic driven invitations
> instead.  So what we're looking for is a proposal to discuss the issues
> most affecting embedded architectures, or preview any features affecting
> the main kernel which embedded architectures might need ... or any other
> topics from embedded architectures which might need discussion or
> debate.

Another issue that affects embedded architectures is drivers initialization
order. There are a lot of cases when you need the drivers to be initialized in
particular order, and current initcalls scheme does not allow fine grained
control for it.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.