Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757105Ab1F2QUN (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:20:13 -0400 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:42407 "EHLO duck.linux-mips.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755975Ab1F2QUJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:20:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:19:21 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Greg KH Cc: James Bottomley , David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@linux.intel.com, bcasavan@sgi.com, airlied@linux.ie, grundler@parisc-linux.org, perex@perex.cz, rpurdie@rpsys.net, klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de, tj@kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Fix various section mismatches and build errors. Message-ID: <20110629161921.GA25833@linux-mips.org> References: <17dd5038b15d7135791aadbe80464a13c80758d3.1309182742.git.ralf@linux-mips.org> <20110627.221257.1290251511587162468.davem@davemloft.net> <20110629130711.GA15649@linux-mips.org> <1309355899.2551.4.camel@mulgrave> <20110629151424.GD18023@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110629151424.GD18023@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1037 Lines: 23 On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 08:14:24AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 08:58:19AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > 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. Ralf -- 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/