RE: [PATCH] media: Initialize the media core with subsys_initcall()

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Hi Laurent,

Thanks for the patch.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Pinchart [mailto:laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:33 PM
> To: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Bhupesh SHARMA
> Subject: [PATCH] media: Initialize the media core with
> subsys_initcall()
> 
> Media-related drivers living outside drivers/media/ (such as the UVC
> gadget driver in drivers/usb/gadget/) rely on the media core being
> initialized before they're probed. As drivers/usb/ is linked before
> drivers/media/, this is currently not the case and will lead to crashes
> if the drivers are not compiled as modules.
> 
> Register media_devnode_init() as a subsys_initcall() instead of
> module_init() to fix this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/media/media-devnode.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

> Bhupesh, do you plan to send a pull request with your "V4L/v4l2-dev:
> Make
> 'videodev_init' as a subsys initcall" patch, or would you like me to
> take it
> in my tree ? I'd like both patches to go in at the same time, with this
> one
> coming first to avoid any risk of bisection issue.

I would prefer that you take my patch also in your tree and have
a single pull request for both the patches as they solve the same
issue and hence must be pulled at the same time.

For your patch:
Acked-By: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma@xxxxxx>

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/media-devnode.c b/drivers/media/media-
> devnode.c
> index 7b42ace..421cf73 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/media-devnode.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/media-devnode.c
> @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static void __exit media_devnode_exit(void)
>  	unregister_chrdev_region(media_dev_t, MEDIA_NUM_DEVICES);
>  }
> 
> -module_init(media_devnode_init)
> +subsys_initcall(media_devnode_init);
>  module_exit(media_devnode_exit)
> 
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> --

Regards,
Bhupesh
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