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SubjectRe: Lump xxxinit together with init if possible (was Re: Solve section mismatch for free_area_init_core.)
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:53:06 +0100, "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>
said:
> Hi Alexander.
> > I more than less expected people to scream "ugly, ugly!".
>
> That was my first thought and the reason why it stayed in my inbox
> for so long.
> But I could not find a better way to do it. We could do it in
> different ways but not better.
>
> > Maybe you could consider the following patch, instead?
> > In non-HOTPLUG configurations, devinit and init sections in vmlinux
> > are lumped together during the final link. There is no good reason
> > to warn about section mismatches between them in this case, because
> > all code is discarded at the same time. This patch moves the lumping-
> > together to the compile stage, which makes the unnecessary warnings
> > go away. Same for MEMORY_HOTPLUG/meminit and HOTPLUG_CPU/cpuinit.
>
> From the commit where the seperate section were introduced:
>
> Introducing separate sections for __dev* (HOTPLUG),
> __cpu* (HOTPLUG_CPU) and __mem* (MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
> allows us to do a much more reliable Section mismatch
> check in modpost. We are no longer dependent on the actual
> configuration of for example HOTPLUG.
>
> I think that explains it.

I should have looked at that commit first. Indeed, it does explain
why it is better to keep the sections separate. Thanks.
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