Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755109AbZJBTNY (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:13:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753866AbZJBTNX (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:13:23 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:49031 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752885AbZJBTNW (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:13:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 21:13:17 +0200 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg , Andrew Morton , Yang Hongyang , Alan Cox , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/34] move atp870u_remove to .devexit.text Message-ID: <20091002191317.GA17428@pengutronix.de> References: <20091001082607.GA2181@pengutronix.de> <1254385718-14254-2-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1254406802.3885.1.camel@mulgrave.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1254406802.3885.1.camel@mulgrave.site> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 22 Hello, On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:20:02PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > Given that practically every kernel on the planet is hotplug enabled > these days and that the savings on the very few that aren't from > discarding the devexit section is at most a page or two (and even arm > says they don't care about that), there doesn't seem to be any point > making these changes. In fact, I think we can just kill devinit and > devexit as section markers. IMHO you should better kill CONFIG_HOTPLUG completely then. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K?nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/