On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > What happens if a module is compiled into the kernel and one of the init
> > functions fails?
>
> We ignore the failure, as we do with initcalls at the moment. I
> wasn't really intending to deprecate the existing mechanisms: this is
> simple at least 8)
>
> Hmm, were you thinking of grouping by KBUILD_BASENAME? Can you think
> of a case where that would be nicer to use?
It's not a case of nicer to use, it's about consistent behaviour
independent of how the module is linked into the kernel.
I'm really not convinced this feature is a good idea until the module
initialization races are not at least basically solved.
bye, Roman
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