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

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:19:43 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
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 Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com> wrote:
>>>> 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).

OK.  Ingo, do you want to take this after all?

If I push stuff through my PCI tree, I try really hard to make PCI
overall more consistent, not less consistent, so I'm not very
interested in taking minor improvements to just one arch.

Bjorn
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