From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:01:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56229B0B.80100@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxjhQzjSf7SBR8BRBJWvUEHfKbQMVhgyQkH-p9j4s-Lew@mail.gmail.com>
Am 17.10.2015 um 20:52 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
>>
>> I'm making dependencies the only ordering for annotated initcalls.
>
> Yeah, and quite frankly, that just means that I'm not going to merge it.
>
> We do not do "flag-day" things. We've done them in the past, and it
> has always been a major and unacceptable pain.
That isn't a flag day thing. It's a config option everyone can turn on
and off whenever he wants.
>
> And if the dependency ordering is "outside" of the traditional
> link-time ordering, then it is by definition a flag-day event. Every
> time you add a dependency to even just *one* driver, it magically
> changes ordering wrt all the other drivers, because now it's in a
> different ordering domain.
>
> So please reconsider. Or stop cc'ing me. Because "flag day" changes
> really are not acceptable.
I'm choosing the second option. I will answer further mails on that
topic, but will remove you from cc. Besides that I consider these
patches as a total failure and will not post any further version.
Alexander Holler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-17 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-17 17:14 [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 01/14] init: deps: introduce annotated initcalls Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 02/14] init: deps: use annotated initcalls for a dependency based (optionally parallelized) init Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 03/14] init: deps: dt: use (HW-specific) dependencies provided by the DT too Alexander Holler
2015-10-19 12:37 ` Mark Brown
2015-10-19 16:27 ` Rob Herring
2015-10-19 17:24 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-19 17:10 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-17 18:37 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 18:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-17 19:01 ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2015-10-17 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-17 19:14 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 19:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-17 19:58 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 21:20 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-18 4:59 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-18 5:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-18 5:20 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-18 5:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-18 10:11 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-19 10:57 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-19 11:31 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-22 6:47 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-17 21:32 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 18:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-17 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-17 19:07 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 05/14] init: deps: order I2C bus drivers by their ID Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 06/14] dtc: deps: Automatically add new property 'dependencies' which contains a list of referenced phandles Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 07/14] dtc: deps: introduce new (virtual) property no-dependencies Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 08/14] dtc: deps: Add option to print initialization order Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 09/14] dtc: deps: Add option to print dependency graph as dot (Graphviz) Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 10/14] init: deps: IDs for annotated initcalls Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-17 17:55 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 18:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-17 18:46 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-19 13:12 ` Mark Brown
2015-10-20 10:30 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-20 10:42 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-20 10:50 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-20 10:57 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 11/14] init: deps: annotate various initcalls Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-10-17 18:59 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 12/14] dt: dts: deps: kirkwood: dockstar: add dependency ehci -> usb power regulator Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 13/14] dt: dts: deps: imx6q: make some remote-endpoints non-dependencies Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:14 ` [PATCH 14/14] dt: dts: deps: omap: beagle: " Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 17:44 ` [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-17 18:19 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 18:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-17 19:43 ` Alexander Holler
2015-10-17 20:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-17 20:37 ` Alexander Holler
2015-11-06 16:07 ` Alexander Holler
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