Controlling Driver Load Order

Wolfram Sang w.sang at pengutronix.de
Wed May 26 19:52:46 EDT 2010


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:04:01PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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().

Correct, but it's subsys_initcall().

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