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SubjectRe: [patch] kobject_uevent: fix init ordering
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On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 20:04 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:

Hey, Kay.

> Looks good. Don't know why this never failed on any kernel I used.
> Does the failure happens on a SMP kernel?

In the original patches, I had the initialization done as module_init(),
which is done very late in the init ordering. At some point it was
changed to core_initcall(), which is the very first things initialized.

> > static int send_uevent(const char *signal, const char *obj, const void *buf,
> > - int buflen, int gfp_mask)
> > + int buflen, int gfp_mask)

Ugh. I am sure Greg can sort it out, but following patch has just the
init call ordering change.

Robert Love


fix kobject_uevent init ordering

lib/kobject_uevent.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff -urN linux-2.6.10-rc1/lib/kobject_uevent.c linux/lib/kobject_uevent.c
--- linux-2.6.10-rc1/lib/kobject_uevent.c 2004-10-25 16:17:09.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/lib/kobject_uevent.c 2004-11-04 13:20:32.731836880 -0500
@@ -149,7 +147,7 @@
return 0;
}

-core_initcall(kobject_uevent_init);
+postcore_initcall(kobject_uevent_init);

#else
static inline int send_uevent(const char *signal, const char *obj,

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