On Dec 6, 2007 12:22 PM, Hennerich, Michael
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But there is another problem at one spot.
>
> static int __init bfin_gpio_init(void)
> {
> str_ident = kcalloc(MAX_RESOURCES,
> sizeof(struct str_ident), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (str_ident == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> memset(str_ident, 0, MAX_RESOURCES * sizeof(struct str_ident));
>
> printk(KERN_INFO "Blackfin GPIO Controller\n");
>
> return 0;
>
> }
> arch_initcall(bfin_gpio_init);
>
> early serial init also utilizes the peripheral request api - however at
> that point bfin_gpio_init didn't allocate memory for the labels.
> So we always have two zombies (allocated pin functions without labels)
>
> Zero pointers are handled - so we don't see issues.
>
> The only workaround I could think of is to statically allocate memory
> holding the labels.
could we bump the initcall level to one higher than early printk ?
-mike
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