On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 17:19 +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 08:14:24AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 08:58:19AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:

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I think we should simply concentrate on __init and __exit; that's where
most of the discard value lies and stop expending huge efforts on the
__devX stuff which adds huge complexity for no real gain.

I have long felt that those __devX markings should just go away as they
cause nothing but problems and have no real gain as you point out.

The suggestion to do that has been floated around before but seems to
have missed sufficient thrust.  I'm all for it; the manual tagging with
__devX has not been very efficient on developer time.  I just want to see
meaningful warnings again over all that noise the current mechanisn may
produce.

For me, just go ahead and fix the actual problems: so _init sections and
_exit sections that are used from the main body, just strip the
annotations, don't try to change them for _devX ones.

Thanks,

James