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

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 05:29:42 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:46 +0100, Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> 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.

But this is why we have late_initcall(), which we can use instead of
module_init().

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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