From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:09:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DBE1E1.6030709@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DBDFC7.1060907@freescale.com>
Scott Wood wrote:
>> I chose subsys_initcall() to increase the probability that fsldma is
>> already present when DMA clients are loaded/initialized and register.
>
> If there's no dependency, why does it matter whether fsldma is already
> present?
Re-read my explanation, please. Technically, it doesn't *matter* in that
nothing will break, but so what? It's nicer if the DMA driver is already
available when the client drivers load, so that they can use the DMA facilities
right away.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-24 21:59 [PATCH v2] fsl-dma: allow Freescale Elo DMA driver to be compiled as a module Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 6:54 ` Li Yang
2008-09-25 13:54 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 18:40 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-25 18:47 ` Timur Tabi
2008-09-25 19:00 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-25 19:09 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2008-09-25 20:16 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-27 18:13 ` Dan Williams
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