Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:05:45 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [patch -mm] notifier chain initialization |
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On 22 Mar 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi, > > This one is against the -mm tree, description below. > > Cheers, > Jes > > This patch goes on top of Alan Stern's > notifier-chain-update-api-changes.patch > > It restructures the notifier chain initialization macros by > introducing FOO_NOTIFIER_INIT() macros which are used by the > FOO_NOTIFIER_HEAD() macros. > > The benefit is that one can use the FOO_NOTIFIER_INIT() macro for > static initialization of a notifier chain.
You probably mean _dynamic_ initialization of a notifier head. The current code handles static initialization just fine.
There's nothing wrong with doing things like this. I didn't include initialization macros originally simply because there aren't any dynamically-initialized notifier heads in the kernel.
Alan Stern
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