Re: [PATCH 2/3] Better interface for hooking early initcalls.

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Sun Jun 22 2008 - 16:44:13 EST


On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
<eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Will do, good idea. However, I feel like these should be two different
> patches. The first adds the new interface, the second converts existing
> users to the new interface. Will resubmit the patch series soon, along
> with the conversion patch.

By the way -- may I ask why it is called early_initcall() and not
pre_smp_initcall()? I think it makes sense to encode the exact purpose
of the initcall into the name. "early" is not very explicit. This is
just my opinion :-) Thanks.


Vegard

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