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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] powerpc: use subsys_initcall for Freescale Local Bus
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:56:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389740192.24905.134.camel@snotra.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389630113-7919-4-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:21 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The FSL_SOC option is bool, and hence this code is either
> present or absent.  It will never be modular, so using
> module_init as an alias for __initcall is rather misleading.
> 
> Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
> init.h into module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd
> have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
> would be a worse thing.
> 
> Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
> of the priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets
> mapped onto device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which
> makes sense for bus code) will thus change this registration
> from level 6-device to level 4-subsys (i.e. slightly earlier).
> However no observable impact of that small difference has
> been observed during testing, or is expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c
> index 6bc5a546d49f..9f00e5f84abe 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c
> @@ -388,4 +388,4 @@ static int __init fsl_lbc_init(void)
>  {
>  	return platform_driver_register(&fsl_lbc_ctrl_driver);
>  }
> -module_init(fsl_lbc_init);
> +subsys_initcall(fsl_lbc_init);

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-13 16:21 [PATCH 0/4] remap non-modular uses of module_init properly Paul Gortmaker
2014-01-13 16:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: use device_initcall for registering rtc devices Paul Gortmaker
2014-01-13 16:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: book3s kvm can be modular so it should use module.h Paul Gortmaker
2014-01-13 16:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc: use subsys_initcall for Freescale Local Bus Paul Gortmaker
2014-01-14 22:56   ` Scott Wood [this message]
2014-01-13 16:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc: don't use module_init for non-modular core hugetlb code Paul Gortmaker

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