From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lethal@linux-sh.org (Paul Mundt)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:33:07 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Input: tca6416-keypad: Change to module_init()
In-Reply-To: <20110322142855.GB2202@sirena.org.uk>
References: <20110322142619.1109.89105.sendpatchset@t400s>
	<20110322142855.GB2202@sirena.org.uk>
Message-ID: <20110322143307.GB24004@linux-sh.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:28:55PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26:19PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> 
> > The tca6416 driver makes use of the I2C bus for chatting
> > with the actual hardware device. Without this patch both
> > the I2C bus driver and the tca6416 driver are initialized
> > at the subsys_initcall() level. This may lead to problems
> > with the tca6416 driver being initialized before the I2C
> > bus driver.
> 
> While this change seems reasonable I'm curious what the problems caused
> by out of order registration are?

I'm also curious as to why link order isn't a sufficient gaurantee like
it is for everyone else?