[PATCH v13 4/4]: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper

Simon Kagstrom simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net
Wed Nov 11 04:46:15 EST 2009


On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:11:33 +0200

> Do we really need this notifiers? Would not it be better to open mtd
> device straight in the module_init function instead?

If the mtdoops driver is built into the kernel, module_init might be
(and I believe will be) called before the MTD partitions have been
created. With the MTD notifiers, this problem is worked around.

// Simon




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