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Hi, On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Rusty Russell wrote: > > What happens if a module is compiled into the kernel and one of the init > > functions fails? > > We ignore the failure, as we do with initcalls at the moment. I > wasn't really intending to deprecate the existing mechanisms: this is > simple at least 8) > > Hmm, were you thinking of grouping by KBUILD_BASENAME? Can you think > of a case where that would be nicer to use? It's not a case of nicer to use, it's about consistent behaviour independent of how the module is linked into the kernel. I'm really not convinced this feature is a good idea until the module initialization races are not at least basically solved. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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