linux-kernel - Re: [patches] [PATCH for 2.6.22] [10/10] x86_64: fix link warningbetween for .text and .init.text

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:30:00 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	yhlu.kernel@...il.com, torvalds@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...-64.org
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH for 2.6.22] [10/10] x86_64: fix link warningbetween for .text and .init.text

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 14:02:49 Jan Beulich wrote:
> This is the right way I think. With mtrr_bp_init being __init, get_mtrr_state
> can then also be __init, making the other two changes unnecessary. I had
> submitted a patch to that effect about a week ago. Beyond that patch, as
> I now looked at this again, it would seem to me that print_fixed can then in
> fact also be __init (rather than being __cpuinit).

Possible. I'm inclined to just leave it as it is now, don't really
care about some more or less bytes in the init section.

This whole new __init checking is a constant annoyance; nearly
all of these warnings are false positives and it is actually
CONFIG dependent.

-Andi

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