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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@redhat.com,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [patch] kobject_uevent: fix init ordering
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:04:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099595042.8249.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099592851.31022.145.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com>

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:27 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> Greg!
> 
> Looks like kobject_uevent_init is executed before netlink_proto_init and
> consequently always fails.  Not cool.
> 
> Attached patch switches the initialization over from core_initcall (init
> level 1) to postcore_initcall (init level 2).  Netlink's initialization
> is done in core_initcall, so this should fix the problem.  We should be
> fine waiting until postcore_initcall.

Looks good. Don't know why this never failed on any kernel I used.
Does the failure happens on a SMP kernel?

>  static int send_uevent(const char *signal, const char *obj, const void *buf,
> -			int buflen, int gfp_mask)
> +		       int buflen, int gfp_mask)
                         ^^^^^^^^^^
This has changed and will not apply.

Best,
Kay


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-04 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-04 15:43 netlink vs kobject_uevent ordering Anton Blanchard
2004-11-04 18:05 ` Greg KH
2004-11-04 18:13   ` Robert Love
2004-11-04 19:32     ` David S. Miller
2004-11-04 18:27   ` [patch] kobject_uevent: fix init ordering Robert Love
2004-11-04 19:04     ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-11-04 19:11       ` Robert Love
2004-11-04 19:28     ` Robert Love
2004-11-04 20:07       ` Greg KH

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