One of the side effects of deferred probe is that some drivers which
used to be probed before initcalls completed are now happening slightly
later. This causes two problems.
- If a console driver gets deferred, then it may not be ready when
userspace starts. For example, if a uart depends on pinctrl, then the
uart will get deferred and /dev/console will not be available
- __init sections will be discarded before built-in drivers are probed.
Strictly speaking, __init functions should not be called in a drivers
__probe path, but there are a lot of drivers (console stuff again)
that do anyway. In the past it was perfectly safe to do so because all
built-in drivers got probed before the end of initcalls.
This patch fixes the problem by forcing the first pass of the deferred
list to complete at late_initcall time. This is late enough to catch the
drivers that are known to have the above issues.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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