Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:10:47 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: More linker magic.. |
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On 3 Aug 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Would it make sense to add a "priority" argument to __initcall ? This > would allow to express simple dependencies between modules. Of course > this could be emulated by immediate functions that do the traditional > manual initialization.
wouldnt it be better to explicitly list initialization dependencies in some way? Thats a whole lot more generic and flexible than static 'priorities'. (eg. just because you introduce a new intermediate dependency you'd have to shift down all sub-modules.) The boot code then would resolve these dependencies. (and detect things like circular dependencies as well)
-- mingo
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