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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>