Controlling Driver Load Order

[Robert Emanuele]

Hi Wolfram,

I am using the i2c-gpio.c driver, not the i2c-at91 driver.  The Atmel
folks have expressed concerns over their i2c silicon and wrote a gpio
version.

Anyway, I better understand the subsys_initcall now and applied that
to the i2c-gpio and my i2c chip driver.  That worked perfectly for my
issue.  I'd be happy to return a patch of this.  Would be this the
sort of thing that would benefit from a config option?  Something
like:

#if defined(CONFIG_EARLY_i2C_GPIO)
subsys_initcall(i2c_gpio_init);
#else
module_init(i2c_gpio_init);
#endif

I appreciate your help and direction.

Thank you,

Rob

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:39:13PM -0700, Robert Emanuele wrote:
>
>> Still the framebuffer device would initialize first and it would lack
>> having the i2c chips it needs ready.  That is the order I'm trying to
>> straighten out.
>
> Understood. Our pointers were probably not precise enough, sorry. Please try
> this patch and give a Tested-by-tag if it solves your problems.
>
> From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 06:03:48 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] i2c-at91: use subsys_initcall() for early initialization
>
> I2C needs to be available early, so other subsystems can access it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Robert Emanuele <rob at emanuele.us>
> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux at fluff.org>
> ---
>
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
> index 305c075..bea5794 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
> @@ -313,13 +313,12 @@ static int __init at91_i2c_init(void)
>  {
>        return platform_driver_register(&at91_i2c_driver);
>  }
> +subsys_initcall(at91_i2c_init);
>
>  static void __exit at91_i2c_exit(void)
>  {
>        platform_driver_unregister(&at91_i2c_driver);
>  }
> -
> -module_init(at91_i2c_init);
>  module_exit(at91_i2c_exit);
>
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Rick Bronson");
>
>
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