Load environment variables earlier

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Sep 18 00:18:49 PDT 2017


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:33:53AM +0800, zjh wrote:
>  think the environment variables should be loaded before the device is registered,
>  so when the device is registered, it can be initialized according to the environment variable.

When devices are influenced by environment variables they must be
prepared that these variables are changed *after* registration. Note
that environment variables are loaded from storage media that are
devices themselves, so that's a catch 22.

Sascha

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