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SubjectRe: [git pull] PCI changes for 2.6.30
* 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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