linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] power/poweroff.c: mark variables with __initdata and __maybe

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Date:   Thu, 2 May 2019 10:59:58 -0700
From:   Nikitas Angelinas <nikitas.angelinas@...il.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power/poweroff.c: mark variables with __initdata and
 __maybe_unused

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 12:15:00PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2019-05-02 00:43:05, Nikitas Angelinas wrote:
> > There is no need to keep sysrq_poweroff_op after initialization, so mark
> > it with __initdata.
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> pavel@duo:/data/l/k$ grep -ri sysrq_key_op . | grep initdata
> pavel@duo:/data/l/k$
> 
> 
> 									Pavel
> 
I am sorry about this. I completely missed the point of registering this
structure. Please ignore this patch.



Cheers,
Nikitas
> >  
> > -static struct sysrq_key_op	sysrq_poweroff_op = {
> > +static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_poweroff_op __initdata = {
> >  	.handler        = handle_poweroff,
> >  	.help_msg       = "poweroff(o)",
> >  	.action_msg     = "Power Off",
> 
> -- 
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