platform device initialization order

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

Hi folks,


I'm currently writing a x86 board driver which makes use of a gpio
chip driver, gpio-leds and gpio-keyboard driver.

The init function fist initializes the gpio device, then the others,
via platform_device_register_resndata().

Here my problem starts: when the gpio driver is built as a module,
the order is mixed up - gpio driver is probed *after* the others
that need the gpio's. So, the gpio's aren't available yet, thus the
other drivers cant be initialized. If it's built-in, the order is
correct. A nasty timing problem.

Is there any way I can force the correct initialization order ?


thx
--mtx

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