Re: [PATCH] Input: tca6416-keypad: Change to module_init()

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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:28:55PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:26:19PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> 
> > The tca6416 driver makes use of the I2C bus for chatting
> > with the actual hardware device. Without this patch both
> > the I2C bus driver and the tca6416 driver are initialized
> > at the subsys_initcall() level. This may lead to problems
> > with the tca6416 driver being initialized before the I2C
> > bus driver.
> 
> While this change seems reasonable I'm curious what the problems caused
> by out of order registration are?

I'm also curious as to why link order isn't a sufficient gaurantee like
it is for everyone else?
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