Re: [PATCH] parport: use subsys_initcall

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Sat Apr 30 2016 - 12:24:17 EST


On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:56:10PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> The drivers which depends on parport may sometimes try to iniitialize
> and register with parport bus even before parport has actually
> registered with the device layer.
> The simplest solution is to mark the init function as subsys_initcall()
> and load the parport before the other drivers loads.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Hi Greg,
A gentle ping.
I know you are going to close your trees soon. And maybe we don't have
enough time to have this tested on linux-next.

regards
sudip