Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:10:13 +0100 | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Subject | Re: [patch -mm] notifier chain initialization |
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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 :)
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