Controlling Driver Load Order
Linus Walleij
linus.ml.walleij at gmail.com
Wed May 26 17:04:48 EDT 2010
2010/5/26 Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij at gmail.com>:
> 2010/5/26 Robert Emanuele <rob at emanuele.us>:
>
>> On my at91sam9g45 platform I need my i2c drivers to load before the
>> framebuffer driver. The i2c drivers control a power management IC
>> which is needed to enable the graphics controller.
>>
>> Is there a way to set up that order?
>
> The usual trick (which you can find in a lot of other I2C busses) is to use
> a core_initcall() instead of module_init().
No, sorry that will probably not work.
I meant subsystem_initcall().
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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