On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:45:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Relying upon link ordering is the old-fashioned way of doing things, > and I have vague memories that it only works by luck - that there's no > hard-and-fast rule that the linker has to obey what we think we asked > it to do. > > The usual way of doing this sort of thing is to use the initcall > priority levels - core_initcall(), postcore_initcall(), etc. Can that > be done here?
Not really - some of this code can be built as modules, so it's mostly module_init rather than anything from the initcall family. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- 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/
