From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Adam Belay <abelay@mit.edu>, Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>,
Karl Bellve <karl.bellve@umassmed.edu>,
Willem Riede <wriede@riede.org>,
Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] PNP: don't check disabled PCI BARs for conflicts in quirk_system_pci_resources()
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:13:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081001061328.GD7348@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0809301244290.3262@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:51:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
....
> But I think we could add a separate notion of a dependancy point, and have
> a setup where we describe "initcall X needs to happen before point A" and
> "initcall Z needs to happen after point A".
>
> And then we can create a separate set of these dependency points, so that
> X and Y don't have to know about each other, they just have to have some
> knowledge about some common synchronization point - one that exists
> regardless of whether X or Y are even compiled in!
We already do this today. :)
Definitions are in include/linux/init.h.
Point A would be "early" ("run before initialing SMP")
The rest could use better definitions and AFAICT aren't that much better
than being named "Point B".
hth,
grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-01 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-29 15:53 [patch 0/2] don't check disabled PCI BARs for conflicts with PNP devices Bjorn Helgaas
2008-09-29 15:56 ` [patch 1/2] PCI: add pci_resource_enabled() Bjorn Helgaas
2008-09-29 15:57 ` [patch 2/2] PNP: don't check disabled PCI BARs for conflicts in quirk_system_pci_resources() Bjorn Helgaas
2008-09-29 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-29 18:31 ` Rene Herman
2008-09-29 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 9:19 ` Rene Herman
2008-09-30 14:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 15:57 ` Rene Herman
2008-09-30 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 19:29 ` Rene Herman
2008-09-30 19:37 ` Rene Herman
2008-09-30 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 20:48 ` Rene Herman
2008-09-30 19:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 19:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-30 20:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01 6:13 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2008-10-01 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-06 5:34 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-01 15:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-01 16:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-30 20:05 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2008-10-01 8:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-30 19:51 ` Rene Herman
2008-09-30 19:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-09-30 19:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-01 20:18 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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