Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:19:31 -0600 | From | Alex Chiang <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] PCI changes for 2.6.30 |
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* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>: > > > > Reading through Documentation/PCI/pci.txt says that under > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG, __devinit should be a nop? > The documentation is not up-to-date in this respect. > > Annotating a function __devinit will no matter the configuration > locate the code in a section named .devinit.text
Ok, I'll update the documentation.
> We then postprocess this section for illegal references using modpost. > > The PCI_HOTPLUG code has often been troublesome with respect to these checks > as this code is only relevant if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled > and will often not even be included in the kernel if not enabled. > This is true for pci_rescan_bus() for example. > > And we would like to export these symbols too. But we do not allow exported > symbols to be annotated __devinit as this code will be blown away in some configurations. > > So the correct solution which you also used in your patch is to tell > modpost to ignore references to *init sections from this specific funtion > as they are OK.
Does this count as an Acked-by?
Thanks.
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