netdev - Re: [PATCH 080/493] fddi: remove use of __devexit

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Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:57:39 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
CC:	Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@...ginia.edu>, <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 080/493] fddi: remove use of __devexit_p

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 18:49 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Bill Pemberton wrote:
> 
> > CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option so __devexit_p is no longer
> > needed.
> 
>  Shouldn't this be switching to __exit_p() instead?  Likewise all the 
> other changes concerned (i.e. s/__dev\(init\|exit\)/__\1/), for the sake 
> of drivers built into the kernel proper (yes, there are people out there 
> still doing that).  Am I missing something?

Drivers can be unbound by poking in sysfs.

Ben.

>  This change scores my NAK as it stands, until updated accordingly or 
> further justified.

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