From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757473AbYFVVBj (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:01:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754749AbYFVVBa (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:01:30 -0400 Received: from [194.117.236.238] ([194.117.236.238]:46426 "EHLO heracles.linux360.ro" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754237AbYFVVB3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:01:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:01:02 +0300 From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu To: "Vegard Nossum" Cc: "Pekka Enberg" , tzanussi@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, compudj@krystal.dyndns.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Better interface for hooking early initcalls. Message-ID: <20080623000102.2e364974@linux360.ro> In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0806221343o3a9e3951j1448e968f9ba9684@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080621171051.5ed3b522@linux360.ro> <84144f020806221222s7498593ap7cad427405fb6776@mail.gmail.com> <20080622233848.50f14605@linux360.ro> <19f34abd0806221343o3a9e3951j1448e968f9ba9684@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:43:55 +0200 "Vegard Nossum" wrote: > By the way -- may I ask why it is called early_initcall() and not > pre_smp_initcall()? I think it makes sense to encode the exact purpose > of the initcall into the name. "early" is not very explicit. This is > just my opinion :-) Thanks. CPU hotplug docs name these (inexisting at that time) initcalls 'early', so I went on implementing 'early initcalls'. However, I don't have strong feelings for either of these two names, so this could change. > Vegard >