From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Message-Id: <200011031038.eA3Accj30162@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: USB init order dependencies.
To: randy.dunlap@intel.com (Dunlap, Randy)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:38:38 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org ('David Woodhouse'), torvalds@transmeta.com,
        jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <D5E932F578EBD111AC3F00A0C96B1E6F07DBDBC8@orsmsx31.jf.intel.com> from "Dunlap, Randy" at Oct 31, 2000 10:10:49 AM
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Dunlap, Randy writes:
> David is entitled to his opinion (IMO).
> And I dislike this patch, as he and I have already discussed.
> 
> Short of fixing the link order, I like Jeff's suggestion
> better (if it actually works, that is):  go back to the
> way it was a few months ago by calling usb_init()
> from init/main.c and making the module_init(usb_init);
> in usb.c conditional (#ifdef MODULE).

However, that breaks the OHCI driver on ARM.  Unless we're going to start
putting init calls back into init/main.c so that we can guarantee the order
of init calls which Linus will not like, you will end up with a lot of ARM
guys complaining.

Linus, your opinion would be helpful at this point.
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