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From: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

>    From: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
>    Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>    On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>    
>    > Does sys_bus_init require the generic bus layer to be initialized
>    > first?
>    
>    Yes, and it is in drivers/base/bus.c just before sys_bus_init is called.
> 
> Linkers are allowed to reorder object files unless you tell them
> explicitly not to.
> 
> This is why you need to put this stuff into a seperate initcall level.
> This is precisely why I suggest postcore_initcall as the fix.

Ok, how about just keeping it a subsys_initcall, like it was in the first 
place? 

	-pat

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