[PATCH 07/14] mfd: Initialise the AB8500 driver at core_initcall time

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Jun 11 17:03:48 EDT 2012


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:

> The AB8500 is soon to have its own IRQ domain. For this to be useful
> the driver needs to be initialised earlier in the boot sequence. Here
> we move initialisation forward from arch_initcall to core_initcall time.

I don't understand why using IRQ domain makes it necessary to
initialize the driver earlier in the init process. Please explain to me,
I need tutoring here.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij



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