From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753249AbbJQRpw (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:45:52 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37351 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753175AbbJQRpv (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:45:51 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:45:50 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Alexander Holler Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Russell King , Grant Likely Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] init: deps: IDs for annotated initcalls Message-ID: <20151017174550.GD27013@kroah.com> References: <1445102067-11519-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <1445102067-11519-11-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1445102067-11519-11-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 07:14:23PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > These patch contains the IDs for initcalls I've annotated. > > This patch is NOT meant for merging into mainline in its current form. > > It should be discussed about how to add these IDs and in which form, if > the feature ends up in mainline at all. > > E.g. it could make sense to split this file into several files in order > to avoid merge conflicts. > > It also might make sense to prefill this file with IDs for many drivers. > > E.g. the following script will use a modules.dep file to produce IDs for > modules. It's meant to be used on a very complete modules.dep build through > make allmodconfig && make -jN modules && make modules_install. A file like this is going to be a nightmare to maintain and ensure that it actually is correct, I don't see it as a viable solution, sorry. thanks, greg k-h