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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:57:52AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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> On Nov 22, 2005, at 1:50 AM, Simon Burge wrote:
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> >Martin Husemann wrote:
> >
> >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.

[snip]

> I'd just like to state for the record that I don't like the FreeBSD =20
> SYSINIT stuff.  It still requires a centralized list of "subsystems", =20
> and still explicitly encodes the order.  So, now instead of looking =20
> in one place for the order of initialization, you have to look in a =20
> bunch of random places.
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> I would much prefer we go with a lazy initialization scheme.

How do you think we should encode dependencies? I agree that the FreeBSD=20
way is uncentralized. However someone who studies the whole system can=20
tune it so that things get loaded in the right order (just pick the right=
=20
set of "FIRST", "SECOND", and so on). How would we do that w/o the master=
=20
list of values?

Take care,

Bill

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