Commit c326cc02 authored Dec 09, 2013 by Aaron Sierra Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Dec 17, 2013

vme: Convert VME core to register as a subsystem



Previously, VME bridge support was treated as any other driver (using
module_init() macro), but if VME bridge and vme_user (staging) drivers
were compiled into the kernel, then vme_user would attempt to register
itself before the VME core support had been loaded. This would result
in a kernel panic.

The load order of these built-in drivers is based on the order in which
drivers/staging/vme and driver/vme are compiled.

This patch changes the VME core driver to use the subsys_initcall()
macro which ensures that it is loaded before all other VME drivers
regardless of the order in which they are compiled.

Tested-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent e56b1401

drivers/vme/Kconfig

+1 −1

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		@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
		#

		menuconfig VME_BUS
		tristate "VME bridge support"
		bool "VME bridge support"
		depends on PCI
		---help---
		If you say Y here you get support for the VME bridge Framework.

drivers/vme/vme.c

+1 −5

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		@@ -1525,9 +1525,5 @@ static void __exit vme_exit(void)
		bus_unregister(&vme_bus_type);
		}

		MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VME bridge driver framework");
		MODULE_AUTHOR("Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com");
		MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

		module_init(vme_init);
		subsys_initcall(vme_init);
		module_exit(vme_exit);