On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:48:57AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > Why not create a new initcall category for things that must run before > > early userspace? > > Why do you want to continue with papering over the root cause? > Pick some janitor, let him write something that implements something > like make style dependencies for initcalls. > Then you can get rid of all that foo_initcall stuff. > It surely needs work to get all that done.
I would argue that _this_ is papering over the root cause. Namely, too complex ordering requirements. Growing a technics for allowing them to fester is an odd solution... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
