Re: Why is the deferred initcall patch not mainline?

2014-10-22 Thread Frank Rowand
On 10/21/2014 12:37 PM, Bird, Tim wrote: snip With regards to doing it dynamically, I'd have to think about how to do that. Having text-based lists of things to do at runtime seems to fit with how we're using device tree these days, but I'm not sure how that would work. Initcall function

Re: Why is the deferred initcall patch not mainline?

2014-10-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net wrote: Yeah, I'm not a big fan of having to change kernel code in order to use the feature. I am quite intrigued by Geert Uytterhoeven's idea to add a 'D' option to the config system, so that the record of which modules to defer

Re: Why is the deferred initcall patch not mainline?

2014-10-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/21/14 14:58, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Bird, Tim wrote: I'm going to respond to several comments in this one message (sorry for the likely confusion) On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:31 AM, Nicolas Pitre [n...@fluxnic.net] wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Grant Likely

Re: Why is the deferred initcall patch not mainline?

2014-10-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Rob Landley wrote: On 10/21/14 14:58, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Bird, Tim wrote: I'm going to respond to several comments in this one message (sorry for the likely confusion) On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:31 AM, Nicolas Pitre