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SubjectRe: [RFC] Unifying kernel initialization
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>On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 08:42:18PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> >macro REGISTER_INIT_FUNC(function,priority),
>> >which would add the nessesary info to the
>> >object file. Then, the kernel would need only
>> >to loop over this list and all the kernel would
>> >be initialized in order.
>>=20
>> I 100% agree. It could be easily implemented using a special
>> ELF section. Afaik there are already plans to do it in 2.3.
>>=20
>> BTW, the ELF section trick could be used for sysctls too,
>> like FreeBSD does. This would remove another ugly initialization
>> call.=20
>
>Let me throw in another idea:
>I would like to register the module upon initialization by init/main.c just
>as modules are registered by their name and reported by /proc/modules. This
>would allow for something like /proc/components to report all statically
>linked kernel parts.=20
>Upon insertion of a module by insmod, we would check both lists, whether the
>module is already there and preventing it from being loaded twice (maybe
>modules where it is allowed can set a flag to prevent this).
>This would also solve some issues with modules being inserted in spite of
>static code being compiled into the kernel.=20
>[Try it with scsi_mod, but sync and remount ro before.]

There are several modules that need the capacibility to be loaded more
than one time to create multiple instances of itself, e.g. the shaper
and dummy.o


-Andi

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