On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Bird, Tim <tim.b...@sonymobile.com> wrote: >> The answer is pretty easy, I think. I tried to mainline it once but failed, >> and didn't really try again. If it is being found useful, we should try to >> mainline it again, this time with more persistence. The reason it got >> rejected before IIRC was that you can accomplish a similar thing with >> modules, with no changes to the kernel. But that doesn't cover the case >> where the loadable modules feature of the kernel is turned off, which is >> common in very small systems. > > It is a rather clumsy approach though since it requires changes to > modules and it makes the configuration static per build. Could it > instead be done by the kernel accepting a list of initcalls that > should be deferred? It would depend I suppose on the cost of finding > the initcalls to defer at boot time.
An, yes, I'm aware of the irony in calling this clumsy when I was the one to introduce deferred probe. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
