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From: Andrii Tseglytskyi <andrii.tseglytskyi@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] PM / AVS: SmartReflex/class3: Fix order of initialization
 of SR class and SR driver
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:33:29 +0300
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On 06/12/2013 04:32 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> [130610 10:58]:
>> Andrii Tseglytskyi <andrii.tseglytskyi@ti.com> writes:
>>
>>> SmartReflex consists of three entities: SR device, SR class and
>>> SR driver. SmartReflex driver depends on SmartReflex class, but
>>> order of their initialization is not clear. They both use
>>> late_initcall(), and order depends on Makefile calls.
>>> Patch moves initialization of SR class to device_initcall(),
>>> and removes redundant call of sr_late_init().
>>>
>>> This provides predictable order of SmartReflex initcalls:
>>> 1. device_initcall() -> SmartReflex class init
>>> 2. late_initcall() -> SmartReflex driver init
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrii Tseglytskyi <andrii.tseglytskyi@ti.com>
>> Tony will have to decide on whether he's OK with the initcall changes.
>>
>> I can queue this with the rest of the AVS changes with Tony's ack.
> I'd rather not make anything earlier, relying on the Makefile is just
> fine here. These pieces are always compiled in too. The reason why
> we should only minimal things initialized earlier than module_init
> is that this way we have a proper console initialized and see real
> error messages without having to have DEBUG_LL + earlyprintk enabled.
>
> If anything else is needed, you have have just one late_initcall
> that checks the return values of the various SR related init functions
> to make sure all the dependencies are met.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony
>   
>
Hi Tony,

Thank you for your comment - it sounds reasonable.
Patch can be dropped from this patch series.

Regards,
Andrii