On Nov 22, 2005, at 1:50 AM, Simon Burge wrote:

> Martin Husemann wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:29:35AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
>>> It really seems like we should do something to automate this, say  
>>> based
>>> on the FreeBSD sysinit stuff or linksets or something.
>>
>> Yes, we should.
>> Could anyone give a summary of "FreeBSD sysinit" stuff?
>
> In a very brief nut-shell there's a macro SYSINIT:
>
> 	#define SYSINIT(uniquifier, subsystem, order, func, ident) \
> 	  ...
>
> which builds a link set of initialisation functions.
>
> "uniquifier" is used to build the link set variable name.  
> "subsystem" is
> a numeric constant that defines the order of the function in the  
> startup
> sequence [1]. "order" sorts orders within a subsystem [2]. "func"  
> is the
> function, and "ident" appears to be an arg to "func".

I'd just like to state for the record that I don't like the FreeBSD  
SYSINIT stuff.  It still requires a centralized list of "subsystems",  
and still explicitly encodes the order.  So, now instead of looking  
in one place for the order of initialization, you have to look in a  
bunch of random places.

I would much prefer we go with a lazy initialization scheme.

>
> To pick an example at random, net/route.c then says:
>
>    SYSINIT(route, SI_SUB_PROTO_DOMAIN, SI_ORDER_THIRD, route_init, 0);

-- thorpej