Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does
David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Fri, 01 Feb 2002 16:08:49 +0000
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz said:
> I decided to use fs_initcall level, as nobody is using this yet. If
> jffs2 will get initialized by fs_initcall, we'll have to switch
> init_crc32 from fs_initcall to arch_initcall or even sooner - crc32
> initialization needs only working kmalloc, nothing else (and it could
> use static buffer happilly, as zeroes compress very good), so
> subsys_initcall could work too.
JFFS2 won't actually use the crc32 routines till it tries to mount a file
system, so you shouldn't have a problem unless you try to mount the rootfs
before init_crc32().
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dwmw2
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