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Message-ID: <20081101192757.GA7622@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 1 Nov 2008 22:27:57 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] el3_common_init() should be __devinit, not __init

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 07:16:14PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:12:50PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:20:19PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > -static int __init el3_common_init(struct net_device *dev)
> > > +static int __devinit el3_common_init(struct net_device *dev)
> > 
> > Al, here is much better patch:
> 
> [essentially kill devinit/cpuinit]
> 
> What the hell makes it better?

Wasting efforts for too little gain?

More or less every distro enables HOTPLUG and HOTPLUG_CPU.
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