Re: [PATCH 27/73] drivers/clk: don't use module_init in clk-nomadik.c whichis non-modular
From: Mike Turquette
Date: Fri Jan 31 2014 - 18:18:01 EST
Quoting Paul Gortmaker (2014-01-21 13:22:30)
> The clk-nomadik.o is built for ARCH_NOMADIK -- which 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 can be
> somewhat 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 device_initcall
> directly in this change means that the runtime impact is
> zero -- it will remain at level 6 in initcall ordering.
>
> Cc: Mike Turquette <mturquette@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good to me.
Regards,
Mike
> ---
> drivers/clk/clk-nomadik.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-nomadik.c b/drivers/clk/clk-nomadik.c
> index 6a934a5..5be9b9f 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk-nomadik.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-nomadik.c
> @@ -500,8 +500,7 @@ static int __init nomadik_src_clk_init_debugfs(void)
> NULL, NULL, &nomadik_src_clk_debugfs_ops);
> return 0;
> }
> -
> -module_init(nomadik_src_clk_init_debugfs);
> +device_initcall(nomadik_src_clk_init_debugfs);
>
> #endif
>
> --
> 1.8.4.1
>
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/