[PATCH v2] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Sep 26 04:40:20 EST 2008


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:54:30AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Li Yang wrote:
> 
> >> -subsys_initcall(of_fsl_dma_chan_init);
> >>  subsys_initcall(of_fsl_dma_init);
> > 
> > Not a critical problem.  But module_init() are preferred for modules.
> 
> This was intentional.  When compiled as a module, subsys_initcall becomes
> module_init().  When compiled in-kernel, this code is initialized before most
> drivers, so it's ready when the drivers are loaded.

If there's a dependency there, how will it work when this is built as a
module?

-Scott



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