From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mmc: atmel-mci: stop using specific initcall Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:10:25 +0100 Message-ID: <2176441.d1sGy4JguN@wuerfel> References: <1416478075-17059-1-git-send-email-ludovic.desroches@atmel.com> <1416478075-17059-2-git-send-email-ludovic.desroches@atmel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:56692 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750958AbaKTLLE (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:11:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1416478075-17059-2-git-send-email-ludovic.desroches@atmel.com> Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Ludovic Desroches , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, nicolas.ferre@atmel.com, chris@printf.net On Thursday 20 November 2014 11:07:54 Ludovic Desroches wrote: > No more use late initcall to manage probing order. Use probe deferring > if needed. Then use module_platform_driver and clean init/exit > attributes. > > Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches > Do we need this backported into stable kernels? It seems that the __init/__exit annotations will break things if you ever tried to unbind the device or run into deferred probing on earlier kernels. Arnd