linux-kernel - Re: the printk problem

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0807051606570.28765@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:07:39 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the printk problem


On Saturday 2008-07-05 15:50, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
>I think the most elegant solution would be a macro similar to the
>initcall macros, that adds the custom extensions to a table which is
>defined by a special linker section. This allows complete
>decentralization, but I don't think it's possible to do binary search
>on the names anymore.

With an rbtree, you can still do binary search.
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