Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:28:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: More linker magic.. |
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's not that the old scheme didn't work. It worked fine. It just wasn't > > very pretty. The new scheme should be able to remove the ugly parts, it's > > not meant to completely supplant the old regular initialization sequence. > > What do you think about cleaning up the other ugly part (aimed at 2.6, the > no driver changes mandate for 2.4 conflicts with it of course):
I've already fixed that in my tree.
> Modular and compiled in drivers use different initialisation mechanisms > (which leads to subtle bugs all the time).
Not if done right. You CAN still do them differently, but I changed a few drivers to not have a single #ifdef MODULE, and I hope it takes off.
The fact is, that modules and non-modules _are_ going to be subtly different, but we can make the differences as small as possible.
I'll make a pre-4 so that you can comment on some of the modules (look at "binfmt_elf.c" for example).
Linus
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