Re: [patch 2/2] PNP: don't check disabled PCI BARs for conflicts in quirk_system_pci_resources()

["Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> and instead do
>
>        initcall(pci_init, "pci");
>        ..
>        initcall(pnp_init, "pnp");
>
> and then just list the levels for the linker scripts in one place. So that
> we wouldn't really have to worry about link ordering: if the link ordering
> is wrong, we just add a new initcall level and insert it in the right
> place, and then we can look at the ordering and see it explicitly in one
> place instead of looking at the makefiles and checking the order we add
> object files to the list in!

don't need to think linking order.
could reorder them in the run time.

struct init_call_st {
        int level;
        char *name;
        initcall_t call;
};

#define INIT_CALL(nameX, levelX, callX) \
                static struct init_call_st __init_call_##nameX __initdata = \
                {       .name = nameX,\
                        .level = levelX,\
                        .call = callX,\
                }; \
                static struct init_call_st *__init_call_ptr_##nameX __used \
                __attribute__((__section__(".init_call.init"))) = \
                        &__init_call_##nameX

in vmlinux.lds.h
#define INIT_CALL_INIT(align)
         \
        . = ALIGN((align));                                             \
        .init_call.init : AT(ADDR(.init_call.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {     \
                VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__init_call_start) = .;                  \
                *(.init_call.init)                                      \
                VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__init_call_end) = .;                    \
        }

let arch vmlinux.lds.S to have
INIT_CALL_INIT(8)

and init/main.c

void __init do_init_calls(void)
{
        struct init_call_st **daa;
        char *ptr;

        /* sort it?, prescan... */
        for (daa = __init_call_start ; daa < __init_call_end; daa++) {
                struct init_call_st *da = *daa;

...
        }

        for (daa = __init_call_start ; daa < __init_call_end; daa++) {
                struct dyn_array *da = *daa;
                ...
                da->call();
}


YH