On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> i am currently digging deeper into sgiserial.c and friends.
> My problem right now is that i dont understand when and how the
> rs_init should and will be called - Currently i have an
> __initcall(rs_init) in arch/mips/sgi/kernel/setup.c which is definitly
> wrong - But should this be invoked - I cant find how i386 does this
> (Could somebody enlighten me what module_init(rs_init) in
> drivers/char/serial.c does ?)
module_init(rs_init) == __initcall(rs_init)
Both add rs_init() to the list (read: array) of functions to be called during
initialization.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
|