Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:30:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Allow arbitrary number of init funcs in modules |
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Hi,
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > What happens if a module is compiled into the kernel and one of the init > > functions fails? > > We ignore the failure, as we do with initcalls at the moment. I > wasn't really intending to deprecate the existing mechanisms: this is > simple at least 8) > > Hmm, were you thinking of grouping by KBUILD_BASENAME? Can you think > of a case where that would be nicer to use?
It's not a case of nicer to use, it's about consistent behaviour independent of how the module is linked into the kernel. I'm really not convinced this feature is a good idea until the module initialization races are not at least basically solved.
bye, Roman
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