From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC] [PATCH v2] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:55:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100902135542.GJ14214@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100902134732.GL26319@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Hi Russell,
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 02:47:32PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 03:26:41PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > I'm not very satisfied by Russell's answer. But even if I accept that
> > it should not move to .init.text, why .ref.text? If I'm not mistaken
> > clkdev_alloc references the following non-local symbols:
> >
> > __clkdev_alloc
> > strlcpy
> > vscnprintf
>
> __clkdev_alloc() is an inline function, so effectively it's part of this
> function. On sh, this calls the boot time allocator which is marked as
> __init if the normal memory allocators aren't online yet.
ah, OK, so I suggest to do
#ifdef CONFIG_SH
__ref
#endif
Just kidding :-)
> > Russell, would at least __module_or_init be OK?
>
> It's a conceptual thing - we want to allow people to create aliases at
> run time. Making it an __init thing will only encourage people to do
> silly things to work around the "it can only be used at init time"
> problem rather than taking the obvious step of removing the __init tag.
OK, thanks for your explanation.
Uwe
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-31 11:16 [RFC] [PATCH] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-01 9:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-01 11:13 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-01 23:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-02 2:37 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-02 2:42 ` Paul Mundt
2010-09-01 9:51 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-01 11:18 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-01 15:01 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-01 15:27 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-01 15:40 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-01 23:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-02 5:46 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-02 6:17 ` [PATCH] ARM: omap1/nokia770: mark some functions __init Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-02 8:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] ARM: omap/fb: move omap_init_fb to .init.text Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-09 8:40 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2010-09-02 8:03 ` [PATCH 2/5] ARM: omap/fb: move omapfb_reserve_sram " Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-02 8:03 ` [PATCH 3/5] ARM: omap/fb: move get_fbmem_region() " Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-02 8:03 ` [PATCH 4/5] ARM: omap: move omap_get_config et al. " Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-02 8:03 ` [PATCH 5/5] wip: ARM: omap: move omap_board_config_kernel to .init.data Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-03 8:15 ` [PATCH] ARM: omap1/nokia770: mark some functions __init Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-08 9:59 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-09 19:27 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-02-09 20:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] " Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-09 20:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: omap: move omap_get_config et al. to .init.text Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-09 20:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: omap: move omap_board_config_kernel to .init.data Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-09 20:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] wip: fix section mismatches in omap1_defconfig Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-10 0:43 ` [PATCH] ARM: omap1/nokia770: mark some functions __init Tony Lindgren
2010-09-02 8:45 ` [RFC] [PATCH] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-01 10:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-01 11:12 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-02 12:48 ` [RFC] [PATCH v2] " Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-02 13:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-02 13:26 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-02 13:47 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-02 13:55 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2010-09-02 13:39 ` [PATCH V3] " Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-03 10:18 ` Magnus Damm
2010-09-03 10:32 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-03 18:23 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-03 18:43 ` [BUG?] rename patch accepted with --dry-run, rejected without (Re: [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c) Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-03 19:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-03 19:33 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-09-03 19:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-09-04 0:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-04 21:33 ` [bug-patch] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-04 21:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-04 21:46 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-04 22:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-04 22:26 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-03 19:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-03 22:58 ` [bug-patch] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-03 23:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-04 21:57 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-09-04 3:21 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-09 9:53 ` [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-14 7:59 ` Paul Mundt
2010-09-15 5:51 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-10-04 19:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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