Re: [PATCH] ACPI / GED: use late init to allow other drivers init

["Baicar, Tyler" <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>]

On 4/21/2017 4:28 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> GED driver is currently set up as a platform driver. On modern operating
> systems, most of the drivers are compiled as kernel modules. It is possible
> that a GED interrupt event is received and the driver such as GHES/GPIO/I2C
> to service it is not available yet. To accommodate this use case, delay
> GED driver load to the late init phase.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>

This resolves the GHES issue described here: 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/28/1083

Thanks,
Tyler
> ---
>   drivers/acpi/evged.c | 8 +++++++-
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/evged.c b/drivers/acpi/evged.c
> index 46f0603..30e638b 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/evged.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/evged.c
> @@ -151,4 +151,10 @@ static int ged_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   		.acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(ged_acpi_ids),
>   	},
>   };
> -builtin_platform_driver(ged_driver);
> +
> +static __init int ged_init(void)
> +{
> +	return platform_driver_register(&ged_driver);
> +}
> +
> +late_initcall(ged_init);

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