Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 07:28:33 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Early init for security modules |
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On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:20:00PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote: > > > > It would work for x86-64. But why can't you use core_initcall() or > > postcore_initcall() ? > > This is too late. Those are just for order in do_initcalls() which is > well after some kernel threads have been created and filesystems have been > mounted, etc. This patch allows statically linked modules to catch > the creation of such kernel objects and give them all consistent labels.
I would give them a generic name then in case someone else needs that too, like "early_initcalls"
May be useful for some architecture initialization for example.
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