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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Libo Chen <libo.chen@huawei.com>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@linaro.org,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] driver core: introduce helper macro initcall_driver()
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:15:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130930101500.GA3222@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380518035-5319-2-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org>

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:13:52PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> For some devices especially on platform/I2C/SPI bus, they want to
> be initialized earlier than other devices, so the driver use initcall
> such as subsys_initcall to make this device initialize earlier.

And this is something we want to get rid of in favor of deferred
probing.

> 
> But for those drivers, lots of them just do nothing special in
> xxx_initcall/exit, so introduce a helper macro initcall_driver() to
> eliminate lots of boilerplate just like module_driver() did.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>

So, NACK because using some *_initcall in drivers should not be
encouraged.

Thanks,

   Wolfram


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1380518035-5319-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
     [not found] ` <1380518035-5319-2-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
2013-09-30  9:16   ` [PATCH 1/4] driver core: introduce helper macro initcall_driver() Mark Brown
2013-09-30 14:23     ` Hanjun Guo
2013-09-30 10:15   ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2013-09-30 14:28     ` Hanjun Guo

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