linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH x86] [15/16] Force __cpuinit on for CONFIG_PM without HOTPLUG

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Message-ID: <20080114150553.GA3524@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:05:53 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	rjw@...k.pl, pavel@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86] [15/16] Force __cpuinit on for CONFIG_PM without
	HOTPLUG_CPU


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> > Would be great to have them automated - just dunno how to do it. Do 
> > you see a feasible way to do it?
> 
> a good starting point would be to make the warnings a lot more 
> self-explanatory. Right now it's often non-obvious trying to figure 
> out how the dependencies are structured and which one should be 
> changed to get rid of the bug.

also, in theory we've got a pretty reliable set of the following 
information:

  function X references symbol Y

and we know what type of sections they are in, right?

could -ffunction-sections be used to delay the categorization of 
functions to the link stage, and in essence remove the need to mark 
functions via any of the __init markers?

	Ingo
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