Re: PATCH: please backout this set of broken changes
Joerg Pommnitz (pommnitz@darmstadt.gmd.de)
Mon, 09 Aug 1999 23:02:31 +0200
Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> > No more complexity to the kernel or to the build process?
> > If you don't care for the build process, here is an idea:
> >
> > 1.) The linker collects all the init-calls in a special section.
> > 2.) We can access this section with objcopy.
> >
> > Idea: extract the section from the final vmlinux file,
> > perform a topological sort according to some kind of
> > description file and put the section back into the binary.
>
> Better: do the topologcal sorting, and from the results write a C file that
> does the calls in proper order. Not dependent on any black obj-magic, can
> all be done __init and loose it at boot.
But this reintroduces some kind of #ifdef (probably in the
dependency description file) that Linus' change
was supposed to remove. You need a way to find out about the init
functions that are actually part of the configured kernel.
Linus' ld magic does this without having to keep track about
the included drivers.
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