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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: pl330: use subsys_initcall
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On 10/17/2014 02:48 AM, Ray Jui wrote:
> As part of subsystem that many slave drivers depend on, it's more
> appropriate for the pl330 DMA driver to be initialized at
> subsys_initcall than device_initcall

Well, we do have -EPROBE_DEFER these days to handle these kinds of 
dependencies so we no longer have to these kinds of manual init reordering 
tricks.

- Lars
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