linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Better interface for hooking early initcalls.

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Message-ID: <19f34abd0806221343o3a9e3951j1448e968f9ba9684@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:43:55 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu" <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>
Cc:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, tzanussi@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	compudj@...stal.dyndns.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Better interface for hooking early initcalls.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro> wrote:
> Will do, good idea. However, I feel like these should be two different
> patches. The first adds the new interface, the second converts existing
> users to the new interface. Will resubmit the patch series soon, along
> with the conversion patch.

By the way -- may I ask why it is called early_initcall() and not
pre_smp_initcall()? I think it makes sense to encode the exact purpose
of the initcall into the name. "early" is not very explicit. This is
just my opinion :-) Thanks.


Vegard

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