On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> (And, interestingly, fs_initcall() is rarely used in the whole fs/
> codes! "grep -r fs_initcall linux/fs" hits only one file.)
Yes. That thing was probably mis-named. It's much more commonly used for a
"helper subsystem", ie things like pcmcia (that want PCI to be fully
initialized and probed, but want to run before the actual device drivers
start probing).
> So, a "safe" solution for the time being appears to be either
> - to look through the whole codes and adjust *_initcall() levels,
> - to force to build saa7134-alsa as a module, or
> - to move saa7134-alsa.c to sound/ directory.
Well, you dropped the easiest: make saa7134 just use "late_initcall()".
It's not "correct", but it's certainly no less correct than just forcing a
driver to be moved for link order reasons.
Linus
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