From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.16 for pointers to __devexit functions
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 03:09:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0F27CA.59C22DEF@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11777.1007619756@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
> This patch against 2.4.16 defines __devexit_p() for pointers to
> functions defined as __devexit, the wrapper inserts the function name
> or NULL, based on config options. It allows people to use the new
> binutils on the kernel, there are some real kernel bugs that binutils
> will find once this patch is in.
>
> I have patched all the obvious references to __devexit functions,
> leaving a few which appear to be real bugs. I notified the maintainers
> of the buggy code privately.
Why not __attribute__((weak)) ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-06 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-06 6:22 [patch] 2.4.16 for pointers to __devexit functions Keith Owens
2001-12-06 8:09 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-12-06 8:14 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-06 9:40 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-06 9:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-06 10:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-06 9:50 ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-12-06 10:15 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-06 10:22 ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-12-06 9:54 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-06 16:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-06 16:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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