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SubjectRe: [PATCH 31/73] module: relocate module_init from init.h to module.h
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Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> writes:
> Modular users will always be users of init functionality, but
> users of init functionality are not necessarily always modules.
>
> Hence any functionality like module_init and module_exit would
> be more at home in the module.h file. And module.h should
> explicitly include init.h to make the dependency clear.
>
> We've already done all the legwork needed to ensure that this
> move does not cause any build regressions due to implicit
> header file include assumptions about where module_init lives.
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Want to delete the extraneous semicolons, for bonus points? :)

> +#define module_init(x) __initcall(x);
...
> +#define module_exit(x) __exitcall(x);

Cheers,
Rusty.


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