On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Thanks for your patch... >
You're welcome. > I can't say I'm a fan of this... > Sorry. > > The real issue is this "extern struct platform_device scc_a_pdev, > scc_b_pdev", circumventing the driver framework. > > Can we get rid of that? > Is there a better alternative? pmz_probe() is called by console_initcall(pmz_console_init) when CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG_CONSOLE=y because this has to happen earlier than the normal platform bus probing which takes place later as a typical module_initcall.