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SubjectRe: crc32 cleanups
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> Does not work if all the code that uses crc32 is in a module. No
> references from the main kernel so crc32 is not included by the linker.

So make the CRC32 code a module itself ?

> ???! __initcall entries are executed in the order that they are linked
> into the kernel. The linkage order is controlled by the order that
> Makefiles are processed during kbuild and by line order within each
> Makefile. There is definitely a priority order for __initcall code.

That is in practice an unuseable "priority" (I'd like to consider that a
highly stochastic variable :)

Not to mention that as an individual sub-project maintainer you can't go
around changing higher level makefiles all the time just to get your
particular initcall chain in order (again, in practice).

You could _conceivably_ build an initcall dependency system by adding some
"initcall_requires" macros which put the dependant other calls into
another linker table, which the kernel would resolve at boot.

/BW

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