From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [PATCH 207/493] i2c: remove use of __devinit Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:20:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20121120092046.24496415@endymion.delvare> References: <1353349642-3677-1-git-send-email-wfp5p@virginia.edu> <1353349642-3677-207-git-send-email-wfp5p@virginia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1353349642-3677-207-git-send-email-wfp5p-4Ng6DfrEGID2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Bill Pemberton Cc: gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, Wolfram Sang , Ben Dooks , Rudolf Marek , Jochen Friedrich , Peter Korsgaard , Tony Lindgren , Olof Johansson , Vitaly Wool , Guan Xuetao , Barry Song , "Mark M. Hoffman" , linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linuxppc-dev-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, linux-omap-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Hi Bill, On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:22:36 -0500, Bill Pemberton wrote: > CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option so __devinit is no longer > needed. Can you please point me/us to the discussion explaining the rationale behind this move, and the explanation of what will be done exactly? While I can easily understand that we want to drop CONFIG_HOTPLUG and always enable hot-plug support, I don't see where we are going with removing __devinit annotations and the like. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare