[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 1/4] Search for and publish cell OF platform devices earlier

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Feb 5 11:19:46 EST 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:59 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Currently cell publishes OF devices at device_initcall() time, which
> means the earliest a driver can bind to a device is also device_initcall()
> time. We have a driver we want to register before other devices, so
> publish the devices at subsys_initcall() time.
> 
> This should not cause any behaviour change for existing drivers, as they
> are still bound at device_initcall() time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c
> index e6534b5..a7f609b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static int __init cell_publish_devices(void)
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -machine_device_initcall(cell, cell_publish_devices);
> +machine_subsys_initcall(cell, cell_publish_devices);
>  
>  static void cell_mpic_cascade(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc)
>  {




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