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Message-Id: <1212571079.4042.66.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:17:59 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pavel@...e.cz,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] add a printk_init variant storing format
	strings in	__initdata

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:10 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:59 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 01:16 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > We're going to want to be able to call printk_init() from modules. 
> > > Please fix and test that, if we decide to proceed.
> > 
> > Can we fix that by making it an alias for printk in the module case?
> > 
> > The only reason we need it to be __init is so that we get the section
> > warnings when you use it from non-init code, right? Won't we get the
> > warning when non-init code refers to the string in initdata anyway?
> 
> In fact, wasn't the warning Andy showed such a warning?

Hm, yes it was. Why do we need __printk_init() to be anything other than
an alias for printk, then?

-- 
dwmw2

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