Message-Id: <466FBDC1.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:49:53 +0200
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
       "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>,
       <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <patches@x86-64.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix improper .init-type section references
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>But then why not simply lose the __exit (and .exit.*) altogether? Because
>__exit becomes redundant in the suggested changed semantics -- just mark
>all the cleanup code as __init too (when it's built-in, the only
>callsite for the
>cleanup code would be from the startup code in .init.*, and when modular,
>__init and __exit lose all relevance anyway).

Because of the non-builtin case (__init still has significance in the modular case,
it's only __exit that doesn't). For the builtin case, __init could certainly be
identical to __exit.

Jan

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