On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:38:44AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Thanks! I realized I'd not cleaned up modpost last night while writing > up the linux-arch mail (not yet sent) and added it to the patch queue: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulg/cpuinit-delete.git/log/ > > I had the dummied out init in the patch queue, but I didn't have linker > script change yet -- I'll add that in today. Testing this for MIPS I found that it fixes ALL the section conflicts which I was observing (but haven't yet found the time to investigate) until recently. So from my point of view making __cpu{init,exec}* a no-op is a bug fix. Ralf