Re: [PATCH] ip_conntrack section mismatch warning fix

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This is a bit of a hack. It eliminates the section mismatch warning from
> latest linker. What happens is the init_or_cleanup code gets called
> from cleanup() hook and the linker thinks it will reference __initdata
> because of it's limited static analysis.  By asking compiler to
> inline, it can eliminate that dead code. It does the __init text
> section to grow, but then the space can be reclaimed.

I think this might still fail without forced inlining. Our init
functions look like crap anyway, and the reason mostly seems to
be mass-registration of hooks, so I guess I'll clean that up
with a small helper function and then just split them.