linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] introduce __init

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:02:30 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@...argo.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce __init_exit function annotation

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Domen Puncer wrote:
> Introduce __init_exit, which is useful ie. for drivers that call
> cleanup functions when they fail in __init functions.

This is wrong.
On arm (just one example of several) the __exit section are discarded
at buildtime so any reference from __init to __exit will cause the
linker to error out.

The real solution is only to declare functiones used solely during
exit as __exit.
The whole point of using __exit is to tell that this can be safely
dropped when built-in because it is not used then.

	Sam
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