Hi Wolfram, I am using the i2c-gpio.c driver, not the i2c-at91 driver. The Atmel folks have expressed concerns over their i2c silicon and wrote a gpio version. Anyway, I better understand the subsys_initcall now and applied that to the i2c-gpio and my i2c chip driver. That worked perfectly for my issue. I'd be happy to return a patch of this. Would be this the sort of thing that would benefit from a config option? Something like: #if defined(CONFIG_EARLY_i2C_GPIO) subsys_initcall(i2c_gpio_init); #else module_init(i2c_gpio_init); #endif I appreciate your help and direction. Thank you, Rob On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:39:13PM -0700, Robert Emanuele wrote: > >> Still the framebuffer device would initialize first and it would lack >> having the i2c chips it needs ready. That is the order I'm trying to >> straighten out. > > Understood. Our pointers were probably not precise enough, sorry. Please try > this patch and give a Tested-by-tag if it solves your problems. > > From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 06:03:48 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] i2c-at91: use subsys_initcall() for early initialization > > I2C needs to be available early, so other subsystems can access it. > > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Robert Emanuele <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c | 3 +-- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c > index 305c075..bea5794 100644 > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c > @@ -313,13 +313,12 @@ static int __init at91_i2c_init(void) > { > return platform_driver_register(&at91_i2c_driver); > } > +subsys_initcall(at91_i2c_init); > > static void __exit at91_i2c_exit(void) > { > platform_driver_unregister(&at91_i2c_driver); > } > - > -module_init(at91_i2c_init); > module_exit(at91_i2c_exit); > > MODULE_AUTHOR("Rick Bronson"); > > > -- > Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | > Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkv98YYACgkQD27XaX1/VRsvlwCffUOH2qAsWbaG2EmIf1Cl2H+I > 8P4AoInnCS69XCfq6wIFku1hUgeT8hlG > =vGcD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html