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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:16:23 +0100
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:13:52PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> For some devices especially on platform/I2C/SPI bus, they want to
> be initialized earlier than other devices, so the driver use initcall
> such as subsys_initcall to make this device initialize earlier.

We're trying to move away from needing to do this and to using deferred
probing to resolve init ordering issues.  Should we not be able to
convert the drivers to module_X_driver()?

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