On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:11:20AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:57:31 -0600
> James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > No-one seems to see much value in these, and they cause about 90% of
> > our problems with __init/__exit markers, so simply eliminate them.
> > Rather than run over the whole tree removing them, this patch
> > #defines them to be nops.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I'll probably be going after __exit after this one, but it makes sense
> > to split them up, since the hotplug annotation removal looks
> > uncontroversial, whereas __exit and discard section removal might
> > produce more robust debate. I also think doing the hotplug removal
> > gives us 90% of the benefits and removes 90% of the section mismatch
> > problems.
>
>
> Since hotplug is so fundamental nowadays the value no longer outweighs the
> pain/cost
> to me, so
Granted for normal hotplug.
But my computer has neither CPU hotplug not memory hotplug, and I don't
see the point for removing these annotations (and they are anyway not
what causes problems in normal drivers).
> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cu
Adrian
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