Re: [PATCH 06/15] alpha: don't use module_init for non-modular core code

[Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>]

On 2015-05-29 01:51 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Paul Gortmaker
> <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
>> The srm console is always built in.  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.
>>
>> Direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs prioritized ones.
>> Use of device_initcall is consistent with what __initcall
>> maps onto, and hence does not change the init order, making the
>> impact of this change zero.   Should someone with real hardware
>> for boot testing want to change it later to arch_initcall or
>> console_initcall, they can do that at a later date.
>>
>> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
>> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
>> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
>> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
>> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
>> ---
>
> I included this in my pull request to Linus that went upstream
> yesterday. Thanks!

OK, thanks - I'll drop it from here if/when I rebase onto the
4.1-rc6 pending on Sunday.  If I drop it now I'll risk introducing
a bisect failure for alpha, since my current baseline of 4.1-rc5
doesn't have this now-upstream change from the old original series.

Paul.
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