On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:51 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:

Add a device_initcall hook to machdep_calls so that platform code
doesn't
need to register device_initcalls that must first check what platform
it is running on.

This should (slightly) speed boot time on kernels that support a lot
of
boards and make device_initcall hooks slightly simpler to implement
because the platform doesn't need to be tested when called.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <redacted>
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Please comment; I think this is a good change, but I'd like some
feedback.

Hrm... I'm not too sure about it... 

My initial idea for dealing with that issue was more along the lines of
defining a set of

machine_xxx_initcall(mach, function)

Where xxx is (arch,core,subsys,fs,device, whatever...)

Those could, at first be implemented as a simple macro wrapper that
expands to a function that tests machine_is() and calls the function,
and later one, we can do more fancy things, such as ELF sections with
function pointers in them.

Ben.