Software nodes are currently initialized in a function registered as
a postcore_initcall(). However, some devices may want to register
software nodes earlier than that (or also in a postcore_initcall() where
they're at the merci of the link order). Move the initialization to
driver_init() making swnode available much earlier as well as making
their initialization time deterministic.

Suggested-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/base/base.h   | 1 +
 drivers/base/init.c   | 1 +
 drivers/base/swnode.c | 6 ++----
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index afeda89fd4710c4c5492b5f19134e2aa8e1e581e..30b416588617bbc3fb433654c999c9b533d73752 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ static inline int devtmpfs_create_node(struct device *dev) { return 0; }
 static inline int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev) { return 0; }
 #endif
 
+void software_node_init(void);
 void software_node_notify(struct device *dev);
 void software_node_notify_remove(struct device *dev);
 
diff --git a/drivers/base/init.c b/drivers/base/init.c
index 9d2b06d65dfc6bf8759f6c232e2d3f753da139ac..af8014416c2460fac91b08ce919c082bf961fcce 100644
--- a/drivers/base/init.c
+++ b/drivers/base/init.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ void __init driver_init(void)
 	 */
 	faux_bus_init();
 	of_core_init();
+	software_node_init();
 	platform_bus_init();
 	auxiliary_bus_init();
 	memory_dev_init();
diff --git a/drivers/base/swnode.c b/drivers/base/swnode.c
index 26cbe1c2a2e043a2315764085207561069c23ccd..a80575bf598b509eb1469cae8a09c601726ce0c8 100644
--- a/drivers/base/swnode.c
+++ b/drivers/base/swnode.c
@@ -1127,11 +1127,9 @@ void software_node_notify_remove(struct device *dev)
 	}
 }
 
-static int __init software_node_init(void)
+void __init software_node_init(void)
 {
 	swnode_kset = kset_create_and_add("software_nodes", NULL, kernel_kobj);
 	if (!swnode_kset)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	return 0;
+		pr_err("failed to register software nodes\n");
 }
-postcore_initcall(software_node_init);

-- 
2.47.3

On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 04:15:04PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> Software nodes are currently initialized in a function registered as
> a postcore_initcall(). However, some devices may want to register
> software nodes earlier than that (or also in a postcore_initcall() where
> they're at the merci of the link order). Move the initialization to
> driver_init() making swnode available much earlier as well as making
> their initialization time deterministic.

Okay, if people want this, why not.
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko