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Message-ID: <20121130204506.GA32483@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:45:06 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Jonathan Kliegman <kliegs@...omium.org>,
	Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
	Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@...idian.itc.virginia.edu>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] init.h: Remove __dev* sections from the kernel

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:39:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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?

Yes, we can, and Bill's been generating patches that way.  A number of
them are already in linux-next and I'll sweep the tree after 3.8-rc1 is
out and catch the rest.

thanks,

greg k-h
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