Re: [PATCH] ACPI / GED: use late init to allow other drivers init

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:48 AM, Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/21/2017 6:43 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> +late_initcall(ged_init);
>> Does this fix the problem?
>>
>> What about if the module in question is loaded after running late_initcalls?
>
> This fixed the issue for me where I had dependencies for QUP I2C driver and GHES
> drivers. Both of them are modules and get probed via normal module execution path.
>
> However, I'm open to improvements.  Do you have a better suggestion? I can try
> to add some _DEP stuff if it is present, but I remember Linux doesn't like _DEP
> stuff too much.

My point is that nothing guarantees a specific ordering or timing of
module loading in general, so moving stuff to different initcall
levels does not really help 100% of the time.

Thanks,
Rafael