Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:43:55 +0200 | From | "Vegard Nossum" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] Better interface for hooking early initcalls. |
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> wrote: > Will do, good idea. However, I feel like these should be two different > patches. The first adds the new interface, the second converts existing > users to the new interface. Will resubmit the patch series soon, along > with the conversion patch.
By the way -- may I ask why it is called early_initcall() and not pre_smp_initcall()? I think it makes sense to encode the exact purpose of the initcall into the name. "early" is not very explicit. This is just my opinion :-) Thanks.
Vegard
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