From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH 407/493] infiniband: remove use of __devexit Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:17:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20121119231724.GA27526@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1353349642-3677-1-git-send-email-wfp5p@virginia.edu> <1353349642-3677-407-git-send-email-wfp5p@virginia.edu> <20121119200921.GD1556@obsidianresearch.com> <20121119201938.GA5614@kroah.com> <20121119214922.GA5636@obsidianresearch.com> <20121119220632.GA1946@kroah.com> <20121119224845.GB5636@obsidianresearch.com> <20121119230006.GA2523@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121119230006.GA2523-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Greg KH Cc: Bill Pemberton , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:00:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I could just leave things alone, with CONFIG_HOTPLUG always enabled, but > then people will continue to blindly use the __dev* markings, getting it > wrong at times, but never realizing that they don't do anything anymore. Well, I was thinking more along the lines of leaving the capability to remove the __dev* marked functions from the link, as is today, independent of the other stuff CONFIG_HOTPLUG controls. But reviewing your comments from the archive makes me think a motivation is misuse of the __dev* markings.. Thanks for the insight, Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753393Ab2KSXR2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:17:28 -0500 Received: from quartz.orcorp.ca ([184.70.90.242]:43558 "EHLO quartz.orcorp.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753158Ab2KSXR0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:17:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:17:24 -0700 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Greg KH Cc: Bill Pemberton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 407/493] infiniband: remove use of __devexit Message-ID: <20121119231724.GA27526@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1353349642-3677-1-git-send-email-wfp5p@virginia.edu> <1353349642-3677-407-git-send-email-wfp5p@virginia.edu> <20121119200921.GD1556@obsidianresearch.com> <20121119201938.GA5614@kroah.com> <20121119214922.GA5636@obsidianresearch.com> <20121119220632.GA1946@kroah.com> <20121119224845.GB5636@obsidianresearch.com> <20121119230006.GA2523@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121119230006.GA2523@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 10.0.0.162 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:00:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I could just leave things alone, with CONFIG_HOTPLUG always enabled, but > then people will continue to blindly use the __dev* markings, getting it > wrong at times, but never realizing that they don't do anything anymore. Well, I was thinking more along the lines of leaving the capability to remove the __dev* marked functions from the link, as is today, independent of the other stuff CONFIG_HOTPLUG controls. But reviewing your comments from the archive makes me think a motivation is misuse of the __dev* markings.. Thanks for the insight, Jason