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Date:	Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:26:26 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.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 05:39:35PM +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
> >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.

That would be great.

thanks,

greg k-h
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