Re: [PATCH 10/14] init: deps: IDs for annotated initcalls

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 07:55:17PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 17.10.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> >On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 07:14:23PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> >>These patch contains the IDs for initcalls I've annotated.
> >>
> >>This patch is NOT meant for merging into mainline in its current form.
> >>
> >>It should be discussed about how to add these IDs and in which form, if
> >>the feature ends up in mainline at all.
> >>
> >>E.g. it could make sense to split this file into several files in order
> >>to avoid merge conflicts.
> >>
> >>It also might make sense to prefill this file with IDs for many drivers.
> >>
> >>E.g. the following script will use a modules.dep file to produce IDs for
> >>modules. It's meant to be used on a very complete modules.dep build through
> >>make allmodconfig && make -jN modules && make modules_install.
> >
> >A file like this is going to be a nightmare to maintain and ensure that
> >it actually is correct, I don't see it as a viable solution, sorry.
> 
> How often will drivers be added? The only changes on this file will happen
> if a driver will be added and then just one ID will be added.

Look at how many drivers we add every kernel release, it's a non-trivial
amount.

> As said above, the file could be filled with IDs for all existing modules,
> regardless if they are already annotated.
> 
> If that's a nightmare, I wonder what how you name the necessary stuff to
> maintain the link order through Makefiles.

There usually isn't a problem and the issue is that we link by
subsystem, so somehow it's all working fairly well.

thanks,

greg k-h