[PATCH v5 03/14] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: driver migration helper

Mohammed, Afzal afzal at ti.com
Wed Jun 13 09:46:23 EDT 2012


Hi Tony,

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 17:48:15, Mohammed, Afzal wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 17:34:58, Tony Lindgren wrote:
 
> > There should no longer be any need to initialize GPMC early. It should
> > behave like any other device driver, and also work as a loadable module.
> 
> Once driver migration is complete for all the boards, we can remove the
> initcall and make it loadable.
> 
> But till that time as we need to support both old & new interface,
> I feel this is necessary as old interface would happen in arch initcall,
> and old gpmc_init is now gpmc_probe, and hence it needs to get executed
> before arch initcall, necessitating this.

Seems you missed this in the flood of mails, please let me know your
comments on this. This is a commit that has to be reverted once driver
migration is complete for all boards.

Regards
Afzal


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