From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net>
To: paulus@ozlabs•org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move serial_dev_init to device_initcall()
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:52:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070829225210.GA5891@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070823002637.GA24332@lixom.net>
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:26:37PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> With the I/O space rewrite by BenH, the legacy_serial serial_dev_init()
> initcall is now called before I/O space is setup, but it's dependent on
> it being available.
>
> Since there's no way to make dependencies between initcalls, we'll just
> have to move it to device_initcall(). Yes, it's suboptimal but I'm not
> aware of any better solution at this time.
Paul, could we get this into 2.6.23? It's a regression from before.
Andy Fleming reported no problems on the MMIO-based UART board he tested
with, and Milton said the patch didn't break qemu/prep that has PIO UART
(he hasn't yet tested to see if it's really required there though).
-Olof
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-29 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-23 0:26 [PATCH] Move serial_dev_init to device_initcall() Olof Johansson
2007-08-23 23:21 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-08-23 23:15 ` Olof Johansson
2007-08-24 4:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-24 4:33 ` Olof Johansson
2007-08-29 22:52 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
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