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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, dchinner@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ramfs: Remove module leftovers
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:24:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111010112443.GA29093@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E92D352.1030109@nod.at>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:13:22PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Removing the dead code looks good, but what is the point in using
> > device_initcall?  We've always been using module_init for non-modular
> > code, though.
> > 
> 
> Ah, ok!
> So we can keep the module_init()?
> I was not sure whether it's valid to use module_init() in pure
> non-modular code...

It is valid.  And if it's not the style de jour anymore thousands of people
will flame me now, but I've always done it that way.


      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 10:54 [PATCH v2] ramfs: Remove module leftovers Richard Weinberger
2011-10-10 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10 11:13   ` Richard Weinberger
2011-10-10 11:24     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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