Re: Why is the deferred initcall patch not mainline?

2014-11-01 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Tim Bird tim.b...@sonymobile.com wrote: The way the feature is expressed in the current code is that a set of drivers are marked for deferred initialization (I'll refer to this as issue 0). Then, at boot: 1)

Re: Why is the deferred initcall patch not mainline?

2014-11-01 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Tim Bird wrote: I have been thinking about the points you made previously, and have given the problem space some more thought. I agree that as it stands this is a very niche solution, and it would be good to think about the broader picture and how things might be