On Thursday 11 December 2014 22:47:32 Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > Note that the I2C drives uses subsys_initcall() for historic reasons, > > > while the DMA driver uses module_init(). This is hard to revert without > > > introducing potential regressions on older boards. So, the I2C DMA > > > support needs to handle deferred probe definately. I am with Laurent, I > > > don't see any other way, but I'd be glad to be enlightened... > > > > While I believe that requesting the channel at transfer time is the good > > solution, I think we should still try to move to module initcalls where > > possible. The risk of regressions is real so proper testing is needed. My > > question is, have you tried it ? > > I would need to test all boards using this driver to not fail booting. > Usually I2C drivers are moved to subsys_initcall because they need > access to something critical (PMIC, GPIOs...) early. I don't see a sane > way to do that testing. Still, I would like to get a better view on the problems we should expect, by testing this on the latest boards for instance. > Other than that, even if we move to module_init, we reduce the chance of > getting a deferred probe, but we do not eliminate it... Sure, but reducing the chance of deferred probe is a good idea in my opinion :-) -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- 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
