On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 15:22:15 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote:
> Being a low-level component, various drivers (e.g. olpc-battery) assume that > it is ok to communicate with the OLPC Embedded Controller during probe. > Therefore the OLPC EC driver must be initialised before other drivers try to > use it. This was the case until it was recently moved out of arch/x86 and > restructured. > > Use arch_initcall so that olpc-ec is readied earlier, matching the > previous behaviour. Fixes various drivers such as olpc-battery and > olpc-xo1-sci. > You imply that there was a regression, but don't describe the user-visible effects of the regression. You provide hints which would permit me, with sufficient effort, to approximately work out which kernel versions were affected by the regression and then left it at that. I need to work out which kernel version(s) need patching, and why. Please, make it easier for me! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
