Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:51:32 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] automatic initcalls |
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Rusty Russell wrote: > The more I play with these magic approaches, the more I prefer an > explicit "Must be done after this" and "must be done before this": > otherwise we're going to need to keep adding new levels as we discover > something that doesn't fit in the magic 7.
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... but I still think it's a good idea, and something we will eventually need as our system grows more complex. If someone stood up and did the work, it should be pretty easy to generate a human-readable list of dependencies so we can check the ordering and make sure it's getting things right.
I wonder if there is some nifty ld feature I'm missing, that could do this for us...
Jeff
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