Could someone here help settle this argument? I have written a driver (for the CD Rom on the Sega Dreamcast). I have marked various initialisation functions - including probe() and the functions that it, and only it, calls, as __init.
Other developers tell me I should mark them as __devinit. However I think this is wrong as: * The CD on the Dreamcast is not and will never be a hotpluggable device * The Dreamcast is a limited memory device and if marking various functions as __init helps save memory that is A Good Thing It has been put to me that while the use case (not hotpluggable) is correct, it is still better practice to use __devinit I have built the code with both __init and __devinit and both work, so there is no issue of practicality as such here. Adrian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/