Re: Recommendation for activating a deferred module init in thekernel

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:23:19 +0200
Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 June 2008 12:55:31 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry - I responded too quickly.  I'm not sure I follow the
> > original suggestion.  How would I call the open function of
> > a module that is not initialized yet?
> 
> Hmm, good point.  I guess that suggestion has just failed the reality
> test.

Have a simple module that calls the initialization functions for
anything with a deferred init.  Then you can open that and use an ioctl
to...

I think if we try really really hard, we can make this a Rube-Goldberg
Machine!

josh
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