On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: > In article > <cadbf7eddkdnzjfnpdsdjk+rcnbfwf8xxomuvg+vp9fupej8...@mail.gmail.com>, > Masao Uebayashi <uebay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>I have tried to explain the need of kctors, instead of hardcoded >>sequence of xxx_init() functions in init_main.c:main(), generated by >>dependency. > > We need both constructors to handle dependencies and event handlers > to notify subsystems about modules being loaded and unloaded (so that > they can be added and removed to the subsystems that need to know about > them), like the FreeBSD eventhandler.h stuff.
Having something that fixes design problems of hook(9), eventhandler(9), and kevent(9) would be nice. (This is what is worth for people spending time and energy for "discussion". :)
