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Re: ksyms_init considered too heavyweight for early bootstrap
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:22:05PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Ok, after more off-list feedback, here is a most intrusive variant that:
>
> - makes sure we only have a single function called "init"
> - initializes the mutex in main w/o exposing it and independend
> of adding a symbol table
> - is not in danger of having people add more functions but forgetting
> the RUN_ONCE() dance
> - adapts all archs to the renamed functions, removing the now unecessary
> NULL calls to what used to be ksyms_init()
>
> Haven't even compile tested most of this; we need to at least test one arch
> that is affected by the NULL-init removals before this could be commited
> [I'll try to check on my dreamcast this weekend].
>
> Comments?
I don't see a changed call to ksyms_init_explicit() in the diff (x86
multiboot code calls this).
Thanks,
Andrew
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