On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 02:12, Grant Likely wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 06:59:41PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> From: Michael Hennerich <michael.henner...@analog.com> >> >> Some systems using this bus sometimes have very basic devices on them >> such as regulators. So we need to be loaded even earlier in case the >> devices are used before userspace is loaded. Therefore register in >> subsys_initcall(). > > This shouldn't have anything to do with userspace since regardless of > the initcall, all of this setup should be complete before userspace > starts. Rather I expect it has to do with an earlier initcall wanting > to have the spi bus up earlier than module_initcall. The description > of this patch seems wrong.
probably. it doesnt make the change wrong though. many spi/i2c busses do the same thing. > On that note, this is something that needs to be revisited. Needing > to play these kind of games highlights a failure of the device model, > or the way that it is being used. (The patch is okay; but it does > highlight some ugliness in the current kernel) i agree, but i'm not about to embark on fixing these fundamental issues. -mike _______________________________________________ Uclinux-dist-devel mailing list Uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org https://blackfin.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dist-devel
