Re: [PATCH 2/3] Better interface for hooking early initcalls.

From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Date: Sun Jun 22 2008 - 17:01:41 EST


On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:43:55 +0200
"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> By the way -- may I ask why it is called early_initcall() and not
> pre_smp_initcall()? I think it makes sense to encode the exact purpose
> of the initcall into the name. "early" is not very explicit. This is
> just my opinion :-) Thanks.

CPU hotplug docs name these (inexisting at that time) initcalls
'early', so I went on implementing 'early initcalls'. However, I don't
have strong feelings for either of these two names, so this could
change.

> Vegard
>
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