Re: [PATCH] cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core eeprom.c code

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

On 15-06-15 03:35 AM, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:05:21PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> The eeprom.c code is compiled based on the Kconfig setting
>> ETRAX_I2C_EEPROM, which is bool.  So the code is either built in
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>> something different, they can do that at a later date.
>>
>> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
> 
> Looks good, I'll take it in the CRIS-tree.

That is fine if you want, but I need to keep a copy here in this
series (as per the part of the msg you snipped) ; otherwise I'll
introduce a bisect fail into the commit history if my tree gets
merged ahead of the cris tree.

Thanks,
Paul.
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> 
>> Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> 
> /^JN - Jesper Nilsson
>