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From: broonie@kernel.org (Mark Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] i2c: sirf: move driver init from module_init to subsys_initcall
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 08:16:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130527121658.GA3660@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGsJ_4y6SY6nNkbW+Yh8jx0WB4Pi9MO1W3xVZcrQcedGeD5ogQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:54:56AM +0800, Barry Song wrote:

> Mark, the case is not that deferred probing is slow or not. deferred
> probing is pretty good.
> the case is that we want to i2c and media connected with i2c probed
> earlier than other devices.
> in auto infotainment devices, we actually do some hacking in kernel
> that makes rear view work earlier than other device driver
> initialization with a kernel thread which take care of backing-car
> policy not only mechanism. that means, we make camera work to see
> backview image even earlier than other drivers' initialization.
> we don't want media deferred to wait for i2c. we want make some early
> jobs ready earlier.

So this change makes no practical difference in mainline and exists to
support out of tree hacks for performance?  It doesn't seem like that
big a patch to carry along with the out of tree stuff...
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-27 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-16  2:50 [PATCH] i2c: sirf: move driver init from module_init to subsys_initcall Barry Song
2013-05-16  9:38 ` Wolfram Sang
2013-05-16 10:25   ` Barry Song
2013-05-25 20:10     ` Mark Brown
2013-05-27  1:54       ` Barry Song
2013-05-27 12:16         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-05-27 15:36           ` Barry Song
2013-06-10 13:45             ` Wolfram Sang
2013-06-11  1:14               ` Barry Song
2013-06-11  8:48                 ` Mark Brown
2013-06-11 11:13                   ` Barry Song
2013-06-11 12:10                     ` Mark Brown

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