Re: [PATCH] Early init for security modules

From: Andi Kleen (akat_private)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 22:28:33 PDT

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    On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:20:00PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
    > * Andi Kleen (akat_private) wrote:
    > > 
    > > It would work for x86-64. But why can't you use core_initcall() or 
    > > postcore_initcall() ? 
    > 
    > This is too late.  Those are just for order in do_initcalls() which is
    > well after some kernel threads have been created and filesystems have been
    > mounted, etc.  This patch allows statically linked modules to catch
    > the creation of such kernel objects and give them all consistent labels.
    
    I would give them a generic name then in case someone else needs that too, 
    like "early_initcalls" 
    
    May be useful for some architecture initialization for example.
    
    -Andi
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