| Message ID | 1250613244-25447-1-git-send-email-sudhakar.raj@ti.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Rejected |
| Headers | show |
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 13:49:30, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:34:04 -0400 Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com> wrote: > > > On TI's da850/omap-l138 EVM, MAC address is stored in SPI flash. > > > > This patch changes the initialization sequence of the drivers > > by moving mtd and spi ahead of net in drivers/Makefile thereby > > enabling da850/omap-l138 ethernet driver to read the MAC address > > while booting. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com> > > --- > > drivers/Makefile | 4 ++-- > > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile > > index bc4205d..2a1d41f 100644 > > --- a/drivers/Makefile > > +++ b/drivers/Makefile > > @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ obj-y += macintosh/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_IDE) += ide/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI) += scsi/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_ATA) += ata/ > > +obj-$(CONFIG_MTD) += mtd/ > > +obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ > > obj-y += net/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_ATM) += atm/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_FUSION) += message/ > > @@ -50,8 +52,6 @@ obj-y += ieee1394/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_UIO) += uio/ > > obj-y += cdrom/ > > obj-y += auxdisplay/ > > -obj-$(CONFIG_MTD) += mtd/ > > -obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_PCCARD) += pcmcia/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_DIO) += dio/ > > obj-$(CONFIG_SBUS) += sbus/ > > That isn't a particularly maintainable way of fixing this, especially > as there are no comments in that Makefile to prevent someone from > rebreaking it in the future. > > A better fix would be to use suitably prioritised initcalls - see > include/linux/init.h around line 187. > Currently mtd, spi and net subsystems are initialized with module_init. If I change the way in which these sub-systems are initialized, then I'll be breaking the support for these sub-systems to work as modules. There are some comments in drivers/Makefile which say why particular sub-systems are ahead of others like: ... ... # PnP must come after ACPI since it will eventually need to check if acpi # was used and do nothing if so ... ... # char/ comes before serial/ etc so that the VT console is the boot-time # default. ... I'll add comments in the Makefile stating the need of mtd and spi ahead of net and re-submit the patch. Regards, Sudhakar
diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile index bc4205d..2a1d41f 100644 --- a/drivers/Makefile +++ b/drivers/Makefile @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ obj-y += macintosh/ obj-$(CONFIG_IDE) += ide/ obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI) += scsi/ obj-$(CONFIG_ATA) += ata/ +obj-$(CONFIG_MTD) += mtd/ +obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ obj-y += net/ obj-$(CONFIG_ATM) += atm/ obj-$(CONFIG_FUSION) += message/ @@ -50,8 +52,6 @@ obj-y += ieee1394/ obj-$(CONFIG_UIO) += uio/ obj-y += cdrom/ obj-y += auxdisplay/ -obj-$(CONFIG_MTD) += mtd/ -obj-$(CONFIG_SPI) += spi/ obj-$(CONFIG_PCCARD) += pcmcia/ obj-$(CONFIG_DIO) += dio/ obj-$(CONFIG_SBUS) += sbus/
On TI's da850/omap-l138 EVM, MAC address is stored in SPI flash. This patch changes the initialization sequence of the drivers by moving mtd and spi ahead of net in drivers/Makefile thereby enabling da850/omap-l138 ethernet driver to read the MAC address while booting. Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com> --- drivers/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)