[U-Boot] initcall revisited - A new idea to discuss

From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] initcall revisited - A new idea to discuss
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:43:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPnjgZ1Szw4TDVTFnRLeirAky6egp98VF95uTsNgeYmDG3d-kg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120103223653.372041899F00@gemini.denx.de>

Hi Wolfgang,

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Simon Glass,
>
> In message <CAPnjgZ3aOyvYPA93ecbMyqhCaaZcBPhfcYhXYYa1ax+9_uEojw@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> I have been thinking if there is a way we can avoid the
>> post-processing perhaps by specifying two function parameters to the
>> macro (the init function to call and its prerequisite) and having the
>> initcall code sort the list before starting. We could have dummy
>
> You mean sort at runtime?
>
> NAK. ?all this must be done when building, i. e. at compile time.

Yes that's what I meant. It is more flexible to do this at build time
if we are happy with the additional build step. OK.

Regards,
Simon

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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