Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:47:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] automatic initcalls |
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I've always preferred a system where one simply lists dependencies [as > you describe above], and some program actually does the hard work of > chasing down all the initcall dependency checking and ordering. > > Linus has traditionally poo-pooed this so I haven't put any work towards > it...
I don't hate the notion, but at the same time every time it comes up I feel that there are reasonably simple ways to just avoid the ordering problems.
Rusty had a script, but somebody complained about the speed of it. I haven't looked at it myself.
Linus
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