From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:40:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080925184020.GA5230@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DB9816.4020603@freescale.com>
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:54:30AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Li Yang wrote:
>
> >> -subsys_initcall(of_fsl_dma_chan_init);
> >> subsys_initcall(of_fsl_dma_init);
> >
> > Not a critical problem. But module_init() are preferred for modules.
>
> This was intentional. When compiled as a module, subsys_initcall becomes
> module_init(). When compiled in-kernel, this code is initialized before most
> drivers, so it's ready when the drivers are loaded.
If there's a dependency there, how will it work when this is built as a
module?
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-24 21:59 Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 6:54 ` Li Yang
2008-09-25 13:54 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 18:40 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-09-25 18:47 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 19:00 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-25 19:09 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 20:16 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-27 18:13 ` Dan Williams
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