On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 17:19 +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > 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. For me, just go ahead and fix the actual problems: so _init sections and _exit sections that are used from the main body, just strip the annotations, don't try to change them for _devX ones. Thanks, James
