Re: [i2c] Frame buffers and early i2c

[Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Uli Luckas wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10. June 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Uli,
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:59:35 +0200, Uli Luckas wrote:
> > > On Monday 09 June 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > Why don't you ask on the i2c mailing list? Cc added.
> > >
> > > I wanted to get i2c developers plus frame buffer and other i2c client
> > > developers involved. Crossposting to more then 2 lists seemed wrong.
> >
> > So you prefer to post to one random list than the two lists where your
> > target audience is? Interesting approach. If you really don't want to
> > post to two lists at once, just send two separate posts?
> >
> And have two seperate threads of communication??? lfml is where they all are 
> and avery maintainer has different preferences. Anyway, I got your point and 
> will come to the i2c list in the future if you prefere.
> 
> > > I'll change the pxa i2c driver to subsys_initcall and try if that works
> > > when I get back to my desk tomorrow.
> >
> > I expect it to work, as apparently other platforms are doing exactly
> > that already.
> >
> Just changing the initcall to subsys really did the trick. I thought, this was 
> the first thing I tried and I thought it crashed my device. But obviousely I 
> had some other problem.
> If Russell gives his Ack, could this be pushed upstream through i2c?

Does this work if the code is built as a module? 

BTW, if people do have these sort of dependencies, then modules
are another way of sorting out the load order, unless you have
the module autoload enabled.

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