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

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Jun 14 02:34:12 EDT 2012


* Mohammed, Afzal <afzal at ti.com> [120613 06:50]:
> 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.

Yes sounds good to me.

Tony



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