From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756095Ab0JTBTg (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:19:36 -0400 Received: from mail.bluewatersys.com ([202.124.120.130]:54205 "EHLO hayes.bluewaternz.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753381Ab0JTBTf (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:19:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4CBE43CE.404@bluewatersys.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:20:14 +1300 From: Ryan Mallon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Hilman CC: Ohad Ben-Cohen , Hari Kanigeri , Suman Anna , Benoit Cousson , Tony Lindgren , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Grant Likely , Simon Que , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] omap: add hwspinlock device References: <1287387875-14168-1-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> <1287387875-14168-4-git-send-email-ohad@wizery.com> <87r5fmxghm.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> <87bp6pviwf.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <87bp6pviwf.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/20/2010 12:53 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Ohad Ben-Cohen writes: > >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin Hilman >> wrote: >>>> +postcore_initcall(hwspinlocks_init); >>> >>> Any reason this needs to be a postcore_initcall? Are there users of >>> hwspinlocks this early in boot? >> >> i2c-omap, which is subsys_initcall (the I2C bus is shared between the >> A9 and the M3 on some OMAP4 boards). > > Rather than moving towards having more drivers have to be built in (and > depend on their probe order) we need to be moving towards building all > these drivers as modules, including omap-i2c. The issue of probe order still needs to be resolved for those of us who do want all the drivers built into the kernel. Everything comes out in the wash already if everything is built as modules by installing the modules in the correct order right? ~Ryan -- Bluewater Systems Ltd - ARM Technology Solution Centre Ryan Mallon 5 Amuri Park, 404 Barbadoes St ryan@bluewatersys.com PO Box 13 889, Christchurch 8013 http://www.bluewatersys.com New Zealand Phone: +64 3 3779127 Freecall: Australia 1800 148 751 Fax: +64 3 3779135 USA 1800 261 2934