[PATCH 1/6] hw_random: explicit ordering of initcalls

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Mon Jan 24 2022 - 15:58:05 EST


hw-random device drivers depend on the hw-random core being
initialized. Make this ordering explicit, also for the case
these drivers are built-in. As the core itself depends on
misc_register() which is set up at subsys_initcall time,
advance the initialization of the core (only) to the
fs_initcall() level.

Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index a3db27916256..e860e044b19e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ static void __exit hwrng_modexit(void)
unregister_miscdev();
}

-module_init(hwrng_modinit);
+fs_initcall(hwrng_modinit); /* depends on misc_register() */
module_exit(hwrng_modexit);

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("H/W Random Number Generator (RNG) driver");
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