From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261660AbVFUINB (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:13:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261541AbVFUIMA (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:12:00 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:19340 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261660AbVFUGw1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:52:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:52:21 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix crashes with hotplug serverworks Message-ID: <20050621065221.GA31420@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , akpm@osdl.org References: <1119298859.3325.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1119298859.3325.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:21:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > You can't install the base kernel on a Stratus box because of the > overuse of __init. Affects both IDE layers identically. It isn't the > only misuser of __init so more review of other drivers (or fixing > ide_register code to know about hotplug v non-hotplug chipsets) would be > good. Well, because of fake-hotplug we really need to mark every ->probe routine and what's called from it __devinit. Debian has patch to do that forever but Bart refused to take it.