Re: [patch -mm] notifier chain initialization

[Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>]

Alan Stern wrote:
>> The benefit is that one can use the FOO_NOTIFIER_INIT() macro for
>> static initialization of a notifier chain.
> 
> You probably mean _dynamic_ initialization of a notifier head.  The 
> current code handles static initialization just fine.

Actually I meant static, I have a notifier declared within a struct and
a macro that initializes it at compile time - didn't work with the old
code.

But I also use it dynamically where this also benefits it.

> There's nothing wrong with doing things like this.  I didn't include 
> initialization macros originally simply because there aren't any 
> dynamically-initialized notifier heads in the kernel.

There probably will be :)

Cheers,
Jes