Re: [PATCH] Early init for security modules

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:20:00PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Andi Kleen ([e-mail]) wrote:
> > 
> > It would work for x86-64. But why can't you use core_initcall() or 
> > postcore_initcall() ? 
> 
> This is too late.  Those are just for order in do_initcalls() which is
> well after some kernel threads have been created and filesystems have been
> mounted, etc.  This patch allows statically linked modules to catch
> the creation of such kernel objects and give them all consistent labels.

I would give them a generic name then in case someone else needs that too, 
like "early_initcalls" 

May be useful for some architecture initialization for example.

-Andi