From: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
shemminger@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fpavlic@de.ibm.com,
davem@sunset.davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:45:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604191245.48458.borntrae@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060408031235.5d1989df.akpm@osdl.org>
As spinlock debugging still does not work with the qeth driver I want to pick
up the discussion.
On Saturday 08 April 2006 12:12, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
[...]
> > -vmlinux-main := $(core-y) $(libs-y) $(drivers-y) $(net-y)
> > +vmlinux-main := $(core-y) $(libs-y) $(net-y) $(drivers-y)
>
> <wonders what this will break>
What about putting this patch into mm and find out?
>
> I have a bad feeling that one day we're going to come unstuck with this
> practice. Is there anything which dictates that the linker has to lay
> sections out in .o-file-order?
>
> Perhaps net initcalls should be using something higher priority than
> device_initcall().
I agree that the initcall order offers a lot of room for improvement (like
dependencies). Is anybody aware of any work into this direction?
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
Christian Borntraeger
Linux Software Engineer zSeries Linux & Virtualization
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-19 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-07 8:15 [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock Heiko Carstens
2006-04-07 14:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-08 10:02 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-04-08 10:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-19 10:45 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2006-04-19 20:12 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-20 13:11 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-04-08 10:14 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-08 10:42 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-04-08 12:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-15 7:27 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-04-15 7:34 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-15 23:00 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-04-24 10:18 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-04-24 10:22 ` [patch] ipv4: inet_init() -> fs_initcall Heiko Carstens
2006-04-07 20:14 ` [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock David S. Miller
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