On Friday, 21 of March 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Hi Rafael. Hi Sam, > Is it possible to extend this in some way so we avoid the > #ifdef stuff in the drivers? Well, I'd love to do something like this. > We could introduce a few special sections that we discard if > PM is not in use. > We have a reliable build time infrastructure to detect > inconsistencies if needed. > > Something like: > #define __suspend __section(.suspend.text) > #define __suspenddata __section(.suspend.data) > > #define __hibernate __section(.hibernate.text) > #define __hibernatedata __section(.hibernate.data) > > A few more tricks will be needed when we assign the functon pointers. > We have __devexit_p(*) and we may use something similar. Unfortunately, I have a little experience with linkers and I don't think I'll be able to do anything like this in a reasonable time without any help. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
