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Message-id: <op.vastr9n67p4s8u@pikus>
Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:39:35 +0200
From:	Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>,
	Rupesh Gujare <rupeshgujare@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] USB: composite: allow optional removal of __init and
 __exit tags

> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 03:41:28PM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> The composite framework has been written using __init and __exit tags
>> to mark init and exit functions as such.  This works with most of the
>> composite gadgets however some may need to call init/exit functions
>> during normal operations.  One example is mass storage gadget which
>> needs to call exit functions.
>>
>> This patch allows gadgets to define USB_NO_INIT_SEGMENT or
>> USB_NO_EXIT_SEGMENT to remove the __init and __exit declarations
>> from composite framework.

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:28:52 +0200, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> How about we just drop the __init and __exit tags completly and then
> we don't have to propagate this mess any further?

Personally, I don't care, ;) so if you think it's better to drop it all
together I can change it in a future patch.

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