netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: spread __net_init, __net

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Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:15:07 +0100
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: spread __net_init, __net_exit

Hello,

2010/1/17 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>:
> __net_init/__net_exit are apparently not going away, so use them
> to full extent.
>
> In some cases __net_init was removed, because it was called from
> __net_exit code.

Maybe it's worth creating a __X_init_or_exit (or similar) for this
kind of functions? I.e. for modules it would put the code into .init
when modules are not unloadable or built in and so could be freed
after boot/module init.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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