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Message-ID: <20120914223531.GA8771@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:35:31 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Annotate pci_fixup_irqs with __devinit

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 02:53:11PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> +cc Greg KH
> 
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de> wrote:
> > In order to keep pci_fixup_irqs() around after init (e.g. for hotplug),
> > mark it __devinit instead of __init. This requires the same change for
> > the implementation of the pcibios_update_irq() function on all
> > architectures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
> > ---
> > Note: Ideally these annotations should go away completely in order to
> > be independent of the HOTPLUG symbol. However, there is work underway
> > to get rid of HOTPLUG altogether, so I've kept the __devinit for now.

No, just take away the __init marking completly.  For 3.7,
CONFIG_HOTPLUG will always be enabled, making it be the same thing.
That way this saves me the time and energy from deleting the __devinit
markings when I get to that point in the patch series :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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