From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Bird Subject: Re: Recommendation for activating a deferred module init in the kernel Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:55:31 -0700 Message-ID: <485816B3.3080800@am.sony.com> References: <48580116.9070504@am.sony.com> <20080617190750.GA31224@logfs.org> <485815F6.20507@am.sony.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <485815F6.20507@am.sony.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cm4gRW5nZWw=?= Cc: linux-embedded , linux kernel Tim Bird wrote: >> If you want an explicit trigger, you could either hook into init_post() >> or have hooks in the open functions of drivers with deferred >> initialization. > > This would presumably require multiple calls (one to the open of > each deferred module). I would still need a trigger for the memory > free operation, unless I hardcode the order of the opening and just > "know" that the last one should free the memory. I'll have to see > if all the modules being loaded like this have open()s. Sorry - I responded too quickly. I'm not sure I follow the original suggestion. How would I call the open function of a module that is not initialized yet? -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America =============================