On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The rtc.o is built for obj-y, i.e. always built in. It will
> never be modular, so using module_init as an alias for __initcall
> can be somewhat misleading.
>
> Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
> init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd
> have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
> would be a worse thing.
>
> Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
> of the priority categorized subgroups. As __initcall gets
> mapped onto device_initcall, our use of device_initcall
> directly in this change means that the runtime impact is
> zero -- it will remain at level 6 in initcall ordering.
>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Thanks, applied and queued for 3.20.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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