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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] toshiba_ohci1394_dmi_table should be __devinitdata, not __devinit
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:57:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051029195749.GB14978@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510290744.00642.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 07:43:59AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Friday, October 28, 2005 9:50 pm, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > I don't really understand why gcc gives the error it does, but
> > without this patch, when building with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n, I get errors
> > like:
> >
> >       CC      arch/x86_64/pci/../../i386/pci/fixup.o
> >     arch/x86_64/pci/../../i386/pci/fixup.c: In function
> > `pci_fixup_i450nx': arch/x86_64/pci/../../i386/pci/fixup.c:13: error:
> > pci_fixup_i450nx causes a section type conflict
> >
> > The change is obviously correct: an array should be declared
> > __devinitdata rather that __devinit.
> 
> Oops, yeah I think this is correct.  We should also mark 
> toshiba_line_size as __devinitdata.  Patch relative to yours.

Why?  Is it really worth it?  2 bytes?  Ick.

It's time to just make CONFIG_HOTPLUG always on to keep messes like this
from happening...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-29  4:50 [PATCH] toshiba_ohci1394_dmi_table should be __devinitdata, not __devinit Roland Dreier
2005-10-29 14:43 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-10-29 19:57   ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-10-30  4:19     ` Jesse Barnes

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