Re: [ALSA] add __devinitdata to all pci_device_id

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 1 May 2006 09:54:43 -0700,
Greg KH wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:49:24PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:11 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > > commit 396c9b928d5c24775846a161a8191dcc1ea4971f
> > > tree 447f4b28c2dd8e0026b96025fb94dbc654d6cade
> > > parent 71b2ccc3a2fd6c27e3cd9b4239670005978e94ce
> > > author Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:59:04 +0200
> > > committer Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxx> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:10:34 +0200
> > > 
> > > [ALSA] add __devinitdata to all pci_device_id
> > 
> > 
> > are you really really sure you want to do this?
> > These structures are exported via sysfs for example, I would think this
> > is quite the wrong thing to make go away silently...
> 
> I asked Henrik to not do this, but oh well...
> 
> No, if they are marked __devinit, and CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled, then
> the sysfs stuff is enabled.  And since CONFIG_HOTPLUG is pretty much
> always enabled these days, the savings of this kind of patch is
> non-existant...

Then actually what could be a pitfall by adding __devinitdata to
pci_device_id table?  If there is a potential danger, we should remove
these modifiers from all places, especially from
Documentation/pci.txt.


thanks,

Takashi
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