Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:39:12 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] automatic initcalls |
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 11:51:32PM -0400, 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.
So we just need to build a directed graph, detect edges without existing nodes (someone changed the initcall, we depend on) and cycles (someone messed up the ordering) as errors, sort the resulting graph toplogically and dump it as a sequence.
This is no rocket science and we have two tools, which does this all for us (make and tsort, which create a warning for both cases).
The hard part is to CREATE all the dependencies and check and double check them with the maintainers.
Regards
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