Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:40:20 -0500 | From | Scott Wood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module |
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:54:30AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > Li Yang wrote: > > >> -subsys_initcall(of_fsl_dma_chan_init); > >> subsys_initcall(of_fsl_dma_init); > > > > Not a critical problem. But module_init() are preferred for modules. > > This was intentional. When compiled as a module, subsys_initcall becomes > module_init(). When compiled in-kernel, this code is initialized before most > drivers, so it's ready when the drivers are loaded.
If there's a dependency there, how will it work when this is built as a module?
-Scott
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