Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Link order madness :-( | Date | Mon, 03 Jun 2002 13:29:57 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> said:
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> The problem is *not* the networking initialisation (I wish > people were *reading* my e-mails). The basic networking is initialised > early enough. The various networking stacks could be initialised > earlier, but I don't depend on them. Note that there might be a reason > to initialise networking after the file system, so to do that we might > need to insert a level between fs_initcall() and device_initcall().
If you insert enough levels, you are in another form of madness.
There should be a way of saying "This must be initialized after this, and before that" (the "before that" might perhaps be taken care of by the "that" itself). Spiced with a few "barriers": "Networking inited", etc. >From there the build system should figure it out by itself. tsort(1) on an appropiate bunch of descriptive one-liners (extracted from the sources?) should give the right initialization order, or error out.
Yes, I know this has been proposed before and been thrown out (for no good reason, AFAICS) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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