Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2007 20:56:41 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Add "Section mismatch" warning whitelist for powerpc |
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:33:50 +0530 "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> wrote: > > But I have slightly different (reversed) semantics for __init_refok > in mind. Basically, we use __init_refok to annotate _callees_ > and not _callers_. In short, __init_refok is a _type_ of __init > section that other sections can freely reference to, without > modpost complaining about this. [ had suggested this in some > previous thread earlier ]
But lots of __init routines cannot be called from just anywhere, it is the special circumstances of some of the callers that makes the call from non-init to init ok. So you need to mark the callers specially.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |