Re: [patch] kobject_uevent: fix init ordering

[Robert Love <rml@novell.com>]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:27 -0500, Robert Love wrote:

> Looks like kobject_uevent_init is executed before netlink_proto_init and
> consequently always fails.  Not cool.
> 
> Attached patch switches the initialization over from core_initcall (init
> level 1) to postcore_initcall (init level 2).  Netlink's initialization
> is done in core_initcall, so this should fix the problem.  We should be
> fine waiting until postcore_initcall.
> 
> Also a couple white space changes mixed in, because I am anal.

Greg, sir, here is a patch rediff'ed off current BK.

	Robert Love


fix init call ordering for kobject_uevent

Signed-Off-By: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>

 lib/kobject_uevent.c |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -urN linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk14/lib/kobject_uevent.c linux/lib/kobject_uevent.c
--- linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk14/lib/kobject_uevent.c	2004-11-04 14:20:10.431943792 -0500
+++ linux/lib/kobject_uevent.c	2004-11-04 14:26:54.056583520 -0500
@@ -120,9 +120,8 @@
 		sprintf(attrpath, "%s/%s", path, attr->name);
 		rc = send_uevent(signal, attrpath, NULL, gfp_mask);
 		kfree(attrpath);
-	} else {
+	} else
 		rc = send_uevent(signal, path, NULL, gfp_mask);
-	}
 
 exit:
 	kfree(path);
@@ -148,7 +147,6 @@
 {
 	return do_kobject_uevent(kobj, action, attr, GFP_ATOMIC);
 }
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_uevent_atomic);
 
 static int __init kobject_uevent_init(void)
@@ -164,7 +162,7 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-core_initcall(kobject_uevent_init);
+postcore_initcall(kobject_uevent_init);
 
 #else
 static inline int send_uevent(const char *signal, const char *obj,