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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix crashes with hotplug serverworks
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:52:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050621065221.GA31420@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119298859.3325.43.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:21:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> You can't install the base kernel on a Stratus box because of the
> overuse of __init. Affects both IDE layers identically. It isn't the
> only misuser of __init so more review of other drivers (or fixing
> ide_register code to know about hotplug v non-hotplug chipsets) would be
> good.

Well, because of fake-hotplug we really need to mark every ->probe routine
and what's called from it __devinit.  Debian has patch to do that forever
but Bart refused to take it.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-21  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-20 20:21 PATCH: Fix crashes with hotplug serverworks Alan Cox
2005-06-21  6:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-06-21  8:25   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-06-21  9:33   ` Alan Cox
2005-06-21  9:59     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-06-21 11:16       ` Alan Cox
2005-06-21 12:11         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-06-21 14:08           ` Alan Cox

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