Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] netconsole: switch init_netconsole() to late_initcall if build-in

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:01:58 -0700

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:45:39 +0800 Lin Ming <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Commit 88491d8(drivers/net: Kconfig & Makefile cleanup) causes a
> regression that netconsole does not work if netconsole and network
> device driver are build into kernel, because netconsole is linked
> before network device driver.
> 
> Andrew Morton suggested to fix this with initcall ordering.
> Fixes it by switching init_netconsole() to late_initcall if build-in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/netconsole.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> index dfc8272..914be29 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> @@ -799,5 +799,9 @@ static void __exit cleanup_netconsole(void)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef MODULE
>  module_init(init_netconsole);
>  module_exit(cleanup_netconsole);
> +#else
> +late_initcall(init_netconsole);
> +#endif /* !MODULE */

The ifdefs (which should have used CONFIG_MODULE) aren't needed. 
Because late_initcall() and module_init() are identical if
CONFIG_MODULE, and because one day we might want to run the exitcalls
for built-in code (UML actually does this at present).