Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Torben, would you mind terribly expanding on your previous patch a bit,
> and also cleaning this part up? As far as I can tell, we should just
> remove scsi_dev_init() completely, and use the module init code with an
> initcall(). Two less regions of #ifdef MODULE, and one less different
> code-path to worry about..
>
> Why was this done this way anyway? I've never seen this kind of setup in
> any of the other drivers that have been de-liced of module dependencies..
In my experience most of the code differences between builtin and module
wind up being due to historical differences between the two in other
code layers, and the driver has to take that into account.
ISA net drivers are similar... they do different types of probing and
initialization depending on ifdef MODULE, but those differences can be
eliminated for the most part just by using modern APIs..
Jeff
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