On 12/09/2010 06:00 AM, Nori, Sekhar wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 14:25:49, Nori, Sekhar wrote: > >> This call should simply return if machine is not tnetv107x EVM. >> >> I didn't follow the entire series but wondering why >> platform device registration should be a late init call. >> Typically the driver probe can be made a late init call >> in case of init sequence dependencies. > > I meant driver init, not probe.
This was done to handle driver dependencies, and is meant to be temporary (until a real driver dependency framework comes in). Please see [1] for a bit more of background on changing drivers to use module_init(). Regards - Cyril. [1] http://linux.davincidsp.com/pipermail/davinci-linux-open-source/2010-November/020987.html _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source