Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:18:08 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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       Paul Bristow <paul@paulbristow.net>, mpm@selenic.com,
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Subject: Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 12:36:30PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> Question: Several modules contains init_module() cleanup_module() -
> for example floppy.o. I cannot see they are used anymore and subject for
> deletion - correct?

Digged a bit further into this.
In init.h the module_init() / module_exit() macros are defined.
They define an alias from the supplied function to
init_module() / cleanup_module().

Users of init_module() / cleanup_module() do have a ifdef section like
this:

#ifdef MODULE
init_module() ...
cleanup_module() ...
#else
module_init(modulename_init);
module_exit(modulename_exit);
#endif

So this seems to be modules that just needs a bit more
porting to the new module structure if I get it right.

What I missed when I asked the question was the #ifdef MODULE part.

	Sam
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