On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm not a big fan of having to change kernel code in order to
>> use the feature. I am quite intrigued by Geert Uytterhoeven's idea
>> to add a 'D' option to the config system, so that the record of which
>> modules to defer could be stored there. This is much better than
>> hand-altering code. I don't know how difficult this would be to add
>> to the kbuild system, but the mechanism for altering the macro would
>> be, IMHO, very straightforward.
>
> Straight forward but IMHO rather suboptimal. Sure it might be good
> enough if all you want is to ship products out the door, but for
> mainline something better should be done.
An alternative could be to add a processing step before linking,
changing the section name for initcalls you want to defer, based on a
small config file.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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