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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:28:44 +0800
From: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       tony.luck@intel.com, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] also discard .*init sections after module
	initialization
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:57:26PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>Just like .init, these sections are supposed to be unneeded after init,
>and modpost warns about improper section references anyway. Likewise
>for .*exit which, other than .exit, aren't needed for the module unload
>path.
>

<snip>

> 
>+bool is_init_section_name(const char *name)
>+{


According to your description, this function name
looks confusing... at least for me.
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