linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/38] move atp870u

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Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:38:24 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Cc:	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/38] move atp870u_remove to .devexit.text

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 10:38:16 pm James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:06 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > The function atp870u_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define
> > it using __devexit.
> 
> But there's really no point to this.  HOTPLUG is always defined on SCSI
> systems that have these drivers, which means that _devinit/exit are
> nops.  That makes the change purely cosmetic and not worth churning two
> dozen drivers for.

Looking at things from a bit different angle:

These tags still have some value as a documentation and help
in maintaining some level of the coherency between different
parts of a kernel (which is a Good Thing).

--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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