On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:07:51PM +0200, J??rn Engel wrote: > On Tue, 17 June 2008 11:23:18 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > > > I'm not that happy using an ioctl for this trigger. What is > > the preferred method of activating a kernel feature like this? > > I presume something in /proc or /sys, but I'm not sure. > > I personally would be unhappy with any kind of interface for this. It > would be much nicer to make it transparent and still get the benefits. > One option would be to start a kernel thread for the initialization and > renice it to 19 or so. > > If you want an explicit trigger, you could either hook into init_post() > or have hooks in the open functions of drivers with deferred > initialization. Obviously you need to wait for completion here anyway, > so adding a trigger wouldn't be too expensive. Run modprobe? Have it do just the _init bits without a load/link of the actual module text? > J??rn > > -- > Joern's library part 13: > http://www.chip-architect.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
