Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: Add module_subinit{_noexit} and module_subeixt helper macros

Theodore Ts'o
2024-07-27T14:54:52Z

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 11:09:02AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 01:58:00PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Yeah, that's my reaction as well. This only saves 50 lines of code in
> > ext4, and that includes unrelated changes such as getting rid of "int
> > i" and putting the declaration into the for loop --- "for (int i =
> > ..."). Sure, that saves two lines of code, but yay?
> >
> > If the ordering how the functions gets called is based on the magic
> > ordering in the Makefile, I'm not sure this actually makes the code
> > clearer, more robust, and easier to maintain for the long term.
>
> So you two object to kernel initcalls for the same reason and would
> rather go back to calling everything explicitly?

I don't oject to kernel initcalls which don't have any
interdependencies and where ordering doesn't matter.

- Ted