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