On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:09:03PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Introducing separate sections for __dev* (HOTPLUG), > __cpu* (HOTPLUG_CPU) and __mem* (MEMORY_HOTPLUG) > allows us to do a much more reliable Section mismatch > check in modpost. We are no longer dependent on the actual > configuration of for example HOTPLUG. > > This has the effect that all users see much more > Section mismatch warnings than before because they > were almost all hidden when HOTPLUG was enabled. > The advantage of this is that when building a piece > of code then it is much more likely that the Section > mismatch errors are spotted and the warnings will be > felt less random of nature. > > Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> I like this a lot. It makes things much more understandable from a driver developer's point of view, and would allow us to mark some things as freeable when we do not run with a CPU hotplug system :) Feel free to add a: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> to the patch, if you want to take it in your tree. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
