[PATCH v7 09/15] gpio: pl061: set initcall level to module init

Haojian Zhuang haojian.zhuang at linaro.org
Mon Jan 21 18:33:12 EST 2013


On 22 January 2013 00:24, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 14:41 +0000, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Haojian Zhuang
>> <haojian.zhuang at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Replace subsys initcall by module initcall level. Since pinctrl
>> > driver is already launched before gpio driver. It's unnecessary
>> > to set gpio driver in subsys init call level.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang at linaro.org>
>>
>> On you platform maybe it works, but have you made sure that nobody
>> else will be affected?
>>
>> SPEAr of course, then these:
>>
>> arch/arm/mach-realview/core.c:           * GPIO on PL061 is active,
>> which is the proper
>> arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig:  select GPIO_PL061 if GPIOLIB
>>
>> Pawel, Dinh: are you OK with this change?
>
> Hm. Doesn't this make the MMCI probing depending on the module_init
> order? As in: wouldn't it make the mmci probe completely fail (not even
> defer it) if it was called before the pl061? In that case even your,
> Linus, hack with inverting the CD status wouldn't work...
>
> Pawel
>
>
>
The sequence of module probe is pinctrl --> gpio --> mmc. So the dependance
of mmc on gpio isn't broken.

Regards
Haojian



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