killing use of ppc_md.init

Gerhard Pircher gerhard_pircher at gmx.net
Fri Jun 19 18:30:24 EST 2009


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:38:50 -0500
> Von: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher at gmx.net>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org>
> Betreff: killing use of ppc_md.init

> ppc_md.init only exists on ppc32 and seems like its pretty useless  
> today.  The users seem to fall into two classes:
> 
> 1. called to do of_platform_bus_probe() - most platforms use  
> machine_device_initcall() for this
> 2. some platform init code which seems like it could move into  
> setup_arch().
> 
> The second one seems to only be on amigaone and chrp.  Anyone know if  
> there is any harm in moving the amigaone_init() into  
> amigaone_setup_arch() and similarly on chrp chrp_init2() into  
> chrp_setup_arch().
I guess converting amigaone_init() to a machine_device_initcall() is the
easiest approach. I'll send a patch soon.

Gerhard

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