On Thursday 20 November 2014 15:01:25 Ludovic Desroches wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:10:25PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 20 November 2014 11:07:54 Ludovic Desroches wrote: > > > No more use late initcall to manage probing order. Use probe deferring > > > if needed. Then use module_platform_driver and clean init/exit > > > attributes. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > Do we need this backported into stable kernels? It seems that > > the __init/__exit annotations will break things if you ever > > tried to unbind the device or run into deferred probing on > > earlier kernels. > > Well, it is a bit complicated, if we backport it, then the mci driver > could be probed before the dma controller. Requesting dma chan will fail > and it will switch to pio mode. > > So it has to be backported with the probe deferring. The issue is > that probe deferring patch is based on other patches removing non-dt > support which become useless only ine 3.19. > Should we just have the __init/__exit removal in backports then? Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
