"Gopinath, Thara" <th...@ti.com> writes: >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khil...@deeprootsystems.com] >>>Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:03 PM >>>To: Gopinath, Thara >>>Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org >>>Subject: Re: [PATCH] OMAP: pm.c correct the initcall for an early init. >>> >>>Thara Gopinath <th...@ti.com> writes: >>> >>>> omap2_common_pm_init is the API where generic system devices like >>>> mpu, l3 etc get initialized. This has to happen really early on >>>> during the boot and not at a later time. This is especially important >>>> with the new opp changes as these devices need to be built before the >>>> opp tables init happen. Today both are device initcalls and it works >>>> just because of the order of compilation >>> >>>Why postcore? there are several other inicalls earlier than >>>device_initcall. > > Because the init in omap_device is a core_initcall. With respect > to opp layer, making this anything above device_initcall will work. But > then tomorrow some other module needs these generic devices in their init, > we will again have to bump up the init priority of this fn. > It is a good thing to do this early on in the boot cycle rather > than later.
OK, please describe this in more detail the changelog. Thanks, Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
