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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 01:26:37 -0600
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] initcall dependency solution.
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On Fri Jun 07, 2002 at 12:02:11PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> This patch allows you to name initcall dependencies and subsystems.
> It is backward compatible with the current initcall levels, but
> doesn't respect link order: a couple of changes to make it boot, but
> more will be needed I expect.

Interesting.  So in theory this mechanism could also be used 
to speed booting by parallelizing execution of each independent
initcall dependancy tree...

 -Erik

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