Re: [PATCH] automatic initcalls

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> The more I play with these magic approaches, the more I prefer an
> explicit "Must be done after this" and "must be done before this":
> otherwise we're going to need to keep adding new levels as we discover
> something that doesn't fit in the magic 7.

I've always preferred a system where one simply lists dependencies [as 
you describe above], and some program actually does the hard work of 
chasing down all the initcall dependency checking and ordering.

Linus has traditionally poo-pooed this so I haven't put any work towards 
it... but I still think it's a good idea, and something we will 
eventually need as our system grows more complex.  If someone stood up 
and did the work, it should be pretty easy to generate a human-readable 
list of dependencies so we can check the ordering and make sure it's 
getting things right.

I wonder if there is some nifty ld feature I'm missing, that could do 
this for us...

	Jeff