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Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:57:37 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	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>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Annotate pci_fixup_irqs with __devinit

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 03:35:31PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :)

Done. I'll give other people some time to comment before sending the
updated series.

Thierry

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