From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752201AbcD3QYO (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:24:14 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:37446 "EHLO mail-wm0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750760AbcD3QYN (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:24:13 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:24:05 +0100 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] parport: use subsys_initcall Message-ID: <20160430162405.GA25043@sudip-laptop> References: <1460474770-28758-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1460474770-28758-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:56:10PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > The drivers which depends on parport may sometimes try to iniitialize > and register with parport bus even before parport has actually > registered with the device layer. > The simplest solution is to mark the init function as subsys_initcall() > and load the parport before the other drivers loads. > > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee > --- Hi Greg, A gentle ping. I know you are going to close your trees soon. And maybe we don't have enough time to have this tested on linux-next. regards sudip