From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:34:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v5 03/14] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: driver migration helper In-Reply-To: References: <4FD6555D.4000508@ti.com> <20120613120457.GO12766@atomide.com> Message-ID: <20120614063412.GA12766@atomide.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Mohammed, Afzal [120613 06:50]: > Hi Tony, > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 17:48:15, Mohammed, Afzal wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 17:34:58, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > There should no longer be any need to initialize GPMC early. It should > > > behave like any other device driver, and also work as a loadable module. > > > > Once driver migration is complete for all the boards, we can remove the > > initcall and make it loadable. > > > > But till that time as we need to support both old & new interface, > > I feel this is necessary as old interface would happen in arch initcall, > > and old gpmc_init is now gpmc_probe, and hence it needs to get executed > > before arch initcall, necessitating this. > > Seems you missed this in the flood of mails, please let me know your > comments on this. This is a commit that has to be reverted once driver > migration is complete for all boards. Yes sounds good to me. Tony