Re: [PATCH] automatic initcalls

[Rusty Russell]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207281358070.28515-100000@serv> you write:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> > > - I only look at modules which contain an initcall
> > > - I only order initcalls of level 6 and 7
> >
> > You don't seem to handle the ordering of initcalls within a module
> > though: see net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o for an example of
> > multiple inits which would be much better as separate initcalls.
> 
> Actually I'm most interested in ordering "module_init()" and you can have
> only one of them per module or how do you want to implement multiple
> initcalls per module?

Sorry, you are right.  That was a brain fart.

> > Especially since you don't cover any of the really interesting cases.
> > Maybe if you could slowly extend it to cover the rest?  (Hah, I
> > know!).
> 
> I wouldn't mind if the remaining initcalls are converted to explicit
> dependencies, but it's possible to sort automatically everything that can
> be built as modules.

Yes, I think we should do this: merge the two together.  You seem to
be in a coding frenzy: want to do the first cut?

I'll probably change my initdepends section format to make it shorter
and easier to parse.  But that change should be independent.

> > > +init/generated-initcalls.c: .allinit.defs
> > > +	set -e; echo '#include <linux/init.h>' > $@; \
> > > +	sed -n < $< "s,^T ,,p" | sort > .defined.all; \
> >
> > I think you mean something like:
> >
> > 	sed -n "s,^T ,,p" < $<
> 
> Isn't that the same?

Argh, not my day, clearly.  Let's pretend I didn't send that mail,
shall we?

Cheers,
Rusty.
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