Re: [PATCH] get rid if __cpuinit and __cpuexit

[Tony Luck]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> interesting... I don't see how that can be unless the checks originally
> had a bug and did not complain about a reference to __init(data) memory
> from inside __cpuinit memory...
> (in which case my point of this being too complex and fragile is
> proven ;-)

Definitely too complex and fragile.  I rebuilt with
CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y
and found that this patch just shuffled everything
around.  Only 4 mismatch warnings were the same
with this patch, 11 old warnings went away, but
14 new ones appeared!

-Tony
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