On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> wrote: > The srm console is always built in. It will never be modular, > so using module_init as an alias for __initcall is rather > misleading. > > Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from > init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd > have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that > would be a worse thing. > > Direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs prioritized ones. > Use of device_initcall is consistent with what __initcall > maps onto, and hence does not change the init order, making the > impact of this change zero. Should someone with real hardware > for boot testing want to change it later to arch_initcall or > console_initcall, they can do that at a later date. > > Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> > Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]> > Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> > ---
I included this in my pull request to Linus that went upstream yesterday. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
