Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:45:06 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] init.h: Remove __dev* sections from the kernel |
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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@linuxfoundation.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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