[openib-general] [KDAPL] module initialization order

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Tue May 10 13:53:59 PDT 2005


roland> Yes, link order is the order that initialization functions will be
roland> called in.  

Do you know if adjusting the order of a Makefile's obj-$(CONFIG_XXX) 
lines is the recommended was to specify the link order?

roland> However (and I'm not sure if this really affects you) devices 
roland> can be added to or removed from the system at any time because 
roland> of PCI hotplug etc., which can cause device driver 
roland> init/cleanup functions to be called at arbitrary times.

I don't foresee any problems in that case. I am only concerned about 
the initialization order when the code is built into the kernel image.



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