Re: [PATCH 1/2] params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parameters

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:57:06 +0000, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> wrote:
> This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare
> kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen
> level are executed. Such parameters are marked using existing
> "flags" field of the "kernel_param" structure.
> 
> Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order
> to add additional symbols between levels that are later used
> by the init code to split the calls into blocks.

This patch wasn't quite what I was thinking, but I've realized that
we can't put the params in the .init section, your approach is probably
the best one.

Note that I've just created a series which gets rid of that silly ISBOOL
thing, so you can use the whole field for "level".  Then I set the level
to -1 for the normal calls; I want to use -2 for the early calls, but
that's not done yet...

I'll rework and rebase your patch like that now.

Thanks!
Rusty.