linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kill hotplug init/exit section annotations

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Message-ID: <20080131081120.27505dc0@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:11:20 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	davem@...emloft.net, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill hotplug init/exit section annotations

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:57:31 -0600
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> wrote:

> No-one seems to see much value in these, and they cause about 90% of
> our problems with __init/__exit markers, so simply eliminate them.
> Rather than run over the whole tree removing them, this patch
> #defines them to be nops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> I'll probably be going after __exit after this one, but it makes sense
> to split them up, since the hotplug annotation removal looks
> uncontroversial, whereas __exit and discard section removal might
> produce more robust debate.  I also think doing the hotplug removal
> gives us 90% of the benefits and removes 90% of the section mismatch
> problems.


Since hotplug is so fundamental nowadays the value no longer outweighs the pain/cost
to me, so 

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>

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