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SubjectRe: [patch -mm] notifier chain initialization
Alan Stern wrote:
>> The benefit is that one can use the FOO_NOTIFIER_INIT() macro for
>> static initialization of a notifier chain.
>
> You probably mean _dynamic_ initialization of a notifier head. The
> current code handles static initialization just fine.

Actually I meant static, I have a notifier declared within a struct and
a macro that initializes it at compile time - didn't work with the old
code.

But I also use it dynamically where this also benefits it.

> There's nothing wrong with doing things like this. I didn't include
> initialization macros originally simply because there aren't any
> dynamically-initialized notifier heads in the kernel.

There probably will be :)

Cheers,
Jes
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