arch_initcall time

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Feb 19 05:32:14 EST 2008


On Feb 18, 2008 11:31 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 11:28 AM, Sean MacLennan <smaclennan at pikatech.com> wrote:
> > I need to call i2c_register_board_info for the new i2c style ad7414
> > driver. This needs to be called at arch initcall time. Currently I just
> > do this:
> >
> > static int __init warp_arch_init(void)
> > {
> >         i2c_register_board_info(0, warp_i2c_info, ARRAY_SIZE(warp_i2c_info));
> >         return 0;
> > }
> > arch_initcall(warp_arch_init);
>
> Yes, this is the right thing to do, but use machine_arch_initcall()
> instead so that it doesn't get called if it is not your board.

That being said, I believe there is infrastructure to handle the
creation of your i2c board info from the device tree.  Your i2c board
info should not be hard coded.

Cheers,
g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.



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