linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/PCI: adjust section annotations

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:22:51 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	<linux-cris-kernel@...s.com>, <mingo@...e.hu>,
	<tglx@...utronix.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/PCI: adjust section annotations

>>> On 21.06.12 at 02:06, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com> wrote:
>> DMI tables referenced from __init code only can be __initconst, and as
>> a result the functions referenced from there can become __init.
>>
>> pcibios_setup() can be __init as being a command line parsing function
>> only.
>>
>> A few other variables can then also have their attributes adjusted.
> 
> This seems OK as far as it goes.
> 
> However, if you're going to make pcibios_setup() __init for x86, I'd
> really encourage you to make it consistent across all the other
> architectures.  And if you do *that*, I think it would be cool if you
> supplied a generic do-nothing "weak" version in the PCI core.  That
> would allow you to remove it altogether from alpha, ia64, microblaze,
> mips pmc-sierra, parisc, powerpc, sh, sparc, tile, and xtensa.

I'd prefer to leave this to the respective arch maintainers, the
patch here really was meant to be x86 specific (as its title says).

Jan

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