Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] macintosh: replace deprecated __initcall with device_initcall

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:41:02 -0700

On Thu, 15 May 2008 16:28:28 +1000 Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 23:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 May 2008 14:14:38 +1000 Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> > > [email-masked] writes:
> > > 
> > > > -__initcall(adb_init);
> > > > +device_initcall(adb_init);
> > > 
> > > There's no particular reason why this needs to go in 2.6.26, is there?
> > > It looks to me like something that I should queue up for 2.6.27.
> > > 
> > 
> > No, this make no difference in code generation - it's just a
> > use-the-modern-interface thing.
> 
> I missed the memo about __initcall being deprecated, or is it only
> deprecated for use in device drivers?
> 

It's just old-fashioned, that's all.

#define pure_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("0",fn,0)

#define core_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("1",fn,1)
#define core_initcall_sync(fn)		__define_initcall("1s",fn,1s)
#define postcore_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("2",fn,2)
#define postcore_initcall_sync(fn)	__define_initcall("2s",fn,2s)
#define arch_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("3",fn,3)
#define arch_initcall_sync(fn)		__define_initcall("3s",fn,3s)
#define subsys_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("4",fn,4)
#define subsys_initcall_sync(fn)	__define_initcall("4s",fn,4s)
#define fs_initcall(fn)			__define_initcall("5",fn,5)
#define fs_initcall_sync(fn)		__define_initcall("5s",fn,5s)
#define rootfs_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("rootfs",fn,rootfs)
#define device_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("6",fn,6)
#define device_initcall_sync(fn)	__define_initcall("6s",fn,6s)
#define late_initcall(fn)		__define_initcall("7",fn,7)
#define late_initcall_sync(fn)		__define_initcall("7s",fn,7s)

#define __initcall(fn) device_initcall(fn)

See, we have the nicely-ordered foo_initcall()'s, and the old-fashioned
legacy __initcall happens to map onto device_initcall().

Such code should use device_initcall() directly.  So we see at which
stage in initcalls this function will be called.