[PATCH v2 09/22] amba: Move AHB to core_initcall

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Jul 16 19:20:04 EDT 2013


On 07/05/2013 04:44 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> Move AHB to core_initcall in order to instanciate this device earlier
> than others since IOMMU depends on AHB and then IOMMU driver needs to
> reigster other platform devices as IOMMU'able.

Oh dear, this really is looking like we shouldn't be playing games by
attempting to force the initialization order. An explicit bus structure
and/or having client devices go and attach to the SMMU, would mean we
didn't have to play games like this:-(



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