On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:00:51AM +0200, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Laurent Pinchart
> > That's what the comment in the Makefile is for ;-) I don't think it's a
> > perfect solution either, but it avoids playing with the various initcalls.
> > The
> > OMAP3 IOMMU isn't a subsystem, subsys_initcall() looks a bit like an API
> > abuse
> > to me.
>
> Yes, it's dirty.
>
> But it's explicit and consistent across build system changes (without
> imposing anything on the build system). We do it all the time with
> other subsystems. We don't like it, but luckily Grant came up with the
> deferred probing mechanism, which will fix this all very nicely.
Agreed. It is not the best fix, but at least more reliable then the
Makefile change.
Joerg
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