Some initcalls in the late level assume that some devices will have already probed without explicitly checking for that. After the recent move to defer most device probes when they are registered, pressure increased in the late initcall level. By starting the processing of the deferred queue in device_initcall_sync we increase the chances that the initcalls mentioned before will find the devices they depend on to have already probed. Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v4: - Start processing deferred probes in device_initcall_sync Changes in v3: None Changes in v2: None drivers/base/dd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index 0654fb771a53..b6a22cff78cf 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dd.c +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static void driver_deferred_probe_trigger(void) * * We don't want to get in the way when the bulk of drivers are getting probed. * Instead, this initcall makes sure that deferred probing is delayed until - * late_initcall time. + * device_initcall_sync time. */ static int deferred_probe_initcall(void) { @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static int deferred_probe_initcall(void) flush_workqueue(deferred_wq); return 0; } -late_initcall(deferred_probe_initcall); +device_initcall_sync(deferred_probe_initcall); static void driver_bound(struct device *dev) { -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html