Re: [PATCH] bus/omap_l3: avoid sync initcall for modules

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue May 13 2014 - 11:13:12 EST


On Monday 12 May 2014 15:20:07 Tony Lindgren wrote:
>
> How about instead let's add this into include/linux/module.h
> like we have for other initcalls:
>
> #define postcore_initcall(fn) module_init(fn)
>
> There may be others missing too from there. BTW, this driver
> might be few of the drivers that actually might need to be
> initialized early for debugging to catch bad access from
> other drivers.

There is a comment above those defines saying:

/* Don't use these in loadable modules, but some people do... */

so I'm not sure if adding more would be appreciated.

Arnd
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