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

From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Date: Sun Jun 22 2008 - 17:05:43 EST


On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:45:57 +0300
"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Vegard Nossum
> <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Sounds good to me.

Which one? :-)

I mean I could change the name, just let me know which one is better.
One encodes the purpose, while the other is consistent with CPU hotplug
stuff. Not that we couldn't change CPU hotplug docs to mention this,
this is an idea too.
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