From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NatSemi SCx200 patches for Linux-2.5
Date: 30 Sep 2002 13:16:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033388216.16266.1.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d6qvyb4c.fsf@zoo.weinigel.se>
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 12:23, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> How can I guarantee that the driver scx200.c is initialized before any
> other drivers that use the scx200_gpio functions (e.g. scx200_i2c.c)?
> I have put scx200.c in in arch/i386/kernel in the hope that this
> directory will always be initialized before anything else, but is this
> really true?
There are two ways. For built in code you can use the link order to
force ordering. In 2.4 thats your only real choice. For modules you need
to ensure there is a dependancy so modprobe loads the supporting module
first
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-30 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-30 11:23 Christer Weinigel
2002-09-30 12:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-09-30 12:39 ` Christer Weinigel
2002-09-30 13:16 ` Alan Cox
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