Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: please backout this set of broken changes | Date | Mon, 09 Aug 1999 16:56:13 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@darmstadt.gmd.de> said: > Linus wrote: > > No.
> > People need to re-order the makefile or similar. I'm not adding complexity > > to just handle simple ordering.
> No more complexity to the kernel or to the build process? > If you don't care for the build process, here is an idea: > > 1.) The linker collects all the init-calls in a special section. > 2.) We can access this section with objcopy. > > Idea: extract the section from the final vmlinux file, > perform a topological sort according to some kind of > description file and put the section back into the binary.
Better: do the topologcal sorting, and from the results write a C file that does the calls in proper order. Not dependent on any black obj-magic, can all be done __init and loose it at boot. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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