[PATCH 3/4] powerpc: use subsys_initcall for Freescale Local Bus
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jan 15 09:56:32 EST 2014
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:21 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The FSL_SOC option is bool, and hence this code is either
> present or absent. It will never be modular, so using
> module_init as an alias for __initcall is rather misleading.
>
> Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
> init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd
> have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
> would be a worse thing.
>
> Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
> of the priority categorized subgroups. As __initcall gets
> mapped onto device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which
> makes sense for bus code) will thus change this registration
> from level 6-device to level 4-subsys (i.e. slightly earlier).
> However no observable impact of that small difference has
> been observed during testing, or is expected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c
> index 6bc5a546d49f..9f00e5f84abe 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c
> @@ -388,4 +388,4 @@ static int __init fsl_lbc_init(void)
> {
> return platform_driver_register(&fsl_lbc_ctrl_driver);
> }
> -module_init(fsl_lbc_init);
> +subsys_initcall(fsl_lbc_init);
Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
-Scott
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