Arnd Bergmann writes:
> Why the heck should the tuner get initialized through
> a function called partition_setup() ???
A lot of old device initialisation is done via partition_setup (which
used to be device_init before the partition code got pulled out of
genhd.c).
There are a few requists that need to be done before this can be
properly cleaned up:
1. All drivers should be converted to use module_init/module_exit
2. We need a way to initialise half of the fs system (procfs and filesystems)
and later the partition half
Once these have been satisfied, genhd.c and device_init() can be killed,
and we'll have a nice clean state of affairs again.
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