Re: [patch -mm] notifier chain initialization

[Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>]

On 22 Mar 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This one is against the -mm tree, description below.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jes
> 
> This patch goes on top of Alan Stern's
> notifier-chain-update-api-changes.patch
> 
> It restructures the notifier chain initialization macros by
> introducing FOO_NOTIFIER_INIT() macros which are used by the
> FOO_NOTIFIER_HEAD() macros.
> 
> The benefit is that one can use the FOO_NOTIFIER_INIT() macro for
> static initialization of a notifier chain.

You probably mean _dynamic_ initialization of a notifier head.  The 
current code handles static initialization just fine.

There's nothing wrong with doing things like this.  I didn't include 
initialization macros originally simply because there aren't any 
dynamically-initialized notifier heads in the kernel.

Alan Stern

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