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

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:21:42 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.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, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:11:20AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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 

Granted for normal hotplug.

But my computer has neither CPU hotplug not memory hotplug, and I don't 
see the point for removing these annotations (and they are anyway not 
what causes problems in normal drivers).

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

cu
Adrian

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