linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] scsi/qlogicpti.c section fixes

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Message-ID: <20080130213030.GR29368@does.not.exist>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:30:30 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] scsi/qlogicpti.c section fixes

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:20:11PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:00:16PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
>...
> To my understanding Adrian just fixed a potential oops.
> You have a driver that surely are thought to be hotplugable -
> otherwise qpti_sbus_probe() would not have been annotated __devinit.
> And had it ever been hotplugged then you had called a function in
> a __init section that was long gone.
>...

s/had it ever been hotplugged/had it been hotplugged with a kernel
                              compiled with gcc 3.2 or 3.3/

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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