Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:06:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:06:46 -0500 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:53009 "EHLO probity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:06:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:16:57 +0000 From: John Levon To: Rusty Russell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add module load profile hook Message-ID: <20030224171657.GA96095@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20030221005412.GA95016@compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20030224025907.A75512C093@lists.samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030224025907.A75512C093@lists.samba.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18nMDq-000NUM-00*nLfw135oMM6* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 22 On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:33:34AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > What needs this ? > > I was thinking those who want to roll their own two-stage init and > delete. I wouldn't implement them all at first, but putting a > notifier in is simple, and it can be expanded later. So you'll add code in case somebody might want it, but you refuse to fix regressions wrt the old code because it's a "corner case" (as if corner cases isn't exactly what makes things complicated) ? How odd :) > ie. you'd just implement MODULE_INITIALIZED, and leave the rest. OK, I'll look at doing it like this instead, if you want. john - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/