Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:07:37 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] get rid if __cpuinit and __cpuexit |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:12:14 -0700 "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Arjan van de Ven > <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > as discussed briefly at the kernel summit; __cpuinit and __cpuexit > > are causing a ton more complexity than they're worth (just see how > > many section warnings an average build has); > > Nice idea ... but on ia64 I actually see *more* section mismatch > warnings with this patch applied :-( > > generic_defconfig goes up from 6 to 7 > tiger_defconfig rises from 3 to 6
interesting... I don't see how that can be unless the checks originally had a bug and did not complain about a reference to __init(data) memory from inside __cpuinit memory... (in which case my point of this being too complex and fragile is proven ;-)
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