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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:43:08 -0500
From:	wfp5p@...idian.itc.virginia.edu (Bill Pemberton)
To:	hpa@...or.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell),
	jim.cromie@...il.com (Jim Cromie),
	borislav.petkov@....com (Borislav Petkov),
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton),
	ak@...ux.intel.com (Andi Kleen), mmarek@...e.cz (Michal Marek),
	tony@...mide.com (Tony Lindgren),
	kliegs@...omium.org (Jonathan Kliegman),
	chris@...kel.net (Chris Zankel),
	fengguang.wu@...el.com (Fengguang Wu),
	sam@...nborg.org (Sam Ravnborg),
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org (linux-kbuild)
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] init.h: Remove __dev* sections from the kernel

H. Peter Anvin writes:
> 
> On 11/29/2012 10:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> >
> > With the recent work to remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG, we are starting to get a
> > bunch of __devinit section warnings, despite CONFIG_HOTPLUG always being
> > enabled.  So, stop marking the sections entirely, by defining them away
> > the section markings in init.h
> >
> 
> Could we run a sed script over the kernel tree and generate patches to 
> remove the markings completely?
> 

That's how I've been generating the patches to remove the markings --
except it's a perl script.

-- 
Bill
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