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

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Message-ID: <20080623000102.2e364974@linux360.ro>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:01:02 +0300
From:	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>
To:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
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, 22 Jun 2008 22:43:55 +0200
"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:
 
> 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.

CPU hotplug docs name these (inexisting at that time) initcalls
'early', so I went on implementing 'early initcalls'. However, I don't
have strong feelings for either of these two names, so this could
change.

> Vegard
> 
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