lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2013]   [Jan]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: linux-next: comment in commit in the slave-dma tree (dmaengine: dw_dmac: Enhance device tree support)
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:43:08PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 09:35:57AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Vinod,
> >
> > In commit 548860697046 ("dmaengine: dw_dmac: Enhance device tree
> > support") (which was changed since yesterday :-(), an instance of
> > __devinit has been added. We are in the process of making CONFIG_HOTPLUG
> > always true, and since commit 78d86c213f28 ("init.h: Remove __dev*
> > sections from the kernel") (included in v3.7), __devinit does nothing.
> > Please do not add any more.
>
> That brings up something I wanted to ask you.
>
> I'd like to send a patch to Linus to just delete __devinit and friends
> entirely from init.h, but that will break the linux-next tree from
> building in places (like this one, and in a few others.)
>
> Is that ok? That should finally get everyone's attention and keep them
> from the cargo-cult programming mode of using these attributes :)
I think if you remove this from linus's tree and since we are in rc2 we can get
it done and remove all other intances from other trees.

--
~Vinod


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2013-01-08 10:21    [W:0.067 / U:0.268 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site