---- Alexandre Belloni wrote ---- > Hi, > > On 18/10/2014 at 10:11:27 +0200, Bird, Tim 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. > > > > There is also the case of subsystems that can't be compiled as modules. > I didn't even try to push that to the mainline because I believe we > prefer not having code without any users/calls in the kernel. You would > still have to patch your kernel to use deferred_module_init(). > > It is also quite easy to port, maybe you can try to push it to mainline > or if you want I can try to send an updated patch myself.
I won't have time to get to it any time soon. I'm traveling this week and will be swamped the next few weeks. If you send something, I certainly won't object. -- Tim Sent from my Sony smartphone > > > ---- Dirk Behme wrote ---- > > > > Hi, > > > > During the ELCE 2014 in Duesseldorf in Chris Hallinan's talk [1] there > > has been the unanswered question why the deferred initcall patch [2] > > isn't mainline, yet. > > > > Anybody remembers? > > > > Best regards > > > > Dirk > > > > > > [1] http://sched.co/1yG5fmY ; > > > > [2] http://elinux.org/Deferred_Initcalls ; > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in > > the body of a message to > > majord...@vger.kernel.org<mailto:majord...@vger.kernel.org> > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ; > > -- > Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons > Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering > http://free-electrons.com N�����r��y����b�X��ǧv�^�){.n�+����{�zf�uם�{ay� ʇڙ�,j��f���h���z� �w��� ���j:+v���w�j�m��������zZ+�����ݢj"��!�i
