linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5, resend] PCI: adjust quirk handler section annotations

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Message-Id: <4FAABDDA0200007800082998@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 May 2012 17:56:26 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5, resend] PCI: adjust quirk handler section
 annotations

>>> On 09.05.12 at 18:08, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 09.05.12 at 17:54, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
>>> My inclination is that all PCI fixups should work the same for
>>> hot-added devices as for those present at boot, which would suggest
>>> that we should always use __devinit, not __init.  If I'm missing
>>> something, please educate me :)
>>
>> That's certainly possible - I simply based the patch on what is there
>> currently.
> 
> Yep, your patch makes perfect sense considering the tree as it is
> today.  But if you agree with my sense of what it *should* be, I think
> we should leave things as they are, or work on moving everything

I indeed wondered why it isn't that way while doing this.

> towards __devinit (I'd be thrilled if you wanted to work on that :)).
> Otherwise we'd just be changing things to __init that we'd have to
> change back later.

I'd perhaps rather drop my patches then, as the main benefit
(moving stuff from resident text to init text) would go away.

Jan

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