Re: [PATCH 1/3] include: linux: i2c: more helpers for declaring i2c drivers

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Fri Jun 21 2019 - 17:17:49 EST


On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 08:39:37PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> From: Enrico Weigelt <info@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add more helper macros for trivial driver init cases, similar to the
> already existing module_i2c_driver()+friends - now for those which
> are initialized at other stages (eg. by subsys_initcall()).
>
> This helps to further reduce driver init boilerplate.

Uh, no! Using subsys_initcall is an old fashioned hack to work around
boot time dependencies. Unless there are very strong arguments, I
usually do not accept them anymore. So, any simplification of that sends
out the wrong message.

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