Re: [patch] kobject_uevent: fix init ordering

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:27 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> Greg!
> 
> Looks like kobject_uevent_init is executed before netlink_proto_init and
> consequently always fails.  Not cool.
> 
> Attached patch switches the initialization over from core_initcall (init
> level 1) to postcore_initcall (init level 2).  Netlink's initialization
> is done in core_initcall, so this should fix the problem.  We should be
> fine waiting until postcore_initcall.

Looks good. Don't know why this never failed on any kernel I used.
Does the failure happens on a SMP kernel?

>  static int send_uevent(const char *signal, const char *obj, const void *buf,
> -			int buflen, int gfp_mask)
> +		       int buflen, int gfp_mask)
                         ^^^^^^^^^^
This has changed and will not apply.

Best,
Kay

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