Jörn 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. That's an interesting idea. I'm pretty sure the product guys want an explicit trigger, so they can make sure they've got the main application well underway before this deferred initialization occurs. > > 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. This would presumably require multiple calls (one to the open of each deferred module). I would still need a trigger for the memory free operation, unless I hardcode the order of the opening and just "know" that the last one should free the memory. I'll have to see if all the modules being loaded like this have open()s. Thanks for the ideas! -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America ============================= -- 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
