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Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.moore@...com
Cc:	xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][NETLABEL]: Move some initialization code into
 __init section.

From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:37:16 -0500

> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 6:12:06 am Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > Everything that is called from netlbl_init() can be marked with
> > __init. This moves 620 bytes from .text section to .text.init one.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> 
> I ran into problems with __init and __exit once because I didn't fully 
> understand their impact; this caused me to be rather hesitant to make use of 
> them.  However, you seem to know what you are doing and these look like 
> reasonable changes to me so I'll ack this patch and if we do run into a 
> problem the fix should be pretty trivial.

Yes, this stuff can be non-trivial at best on some days :-)

> I appreciate you taking the time to find these optimizations, thanks again.
> 
> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>

Applied.
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