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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] link errors with internal calls to devexit functions
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:26:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C241978.65020179@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Dec 2001 13:57:25 +1100." <20011222025725.GA629@topic.com.au> <5750.1008997543@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>

Keith Owens wrote:
> 
>         __devexit_call(bttv_remove(dev));
>         __devexit_call(uhci_pci_remove(dev));

This may break the drivers.  They both call the remove
function on the init path, when something failed.

I believe the correct fix here is to simply remove __devinit altogether
from the definition of both those functions.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-22  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-22  2:57 [PATCH] link errors with internal calls to devexit functions Jason Thomas
2001-12-22  5:05 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-22  5:26   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-12-22  9:04   ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-12-22  9:13     ` Keith Owens
2001-12-25 17:59   ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-25 17:56 ` Legacy Fishtank
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-09  4:40 Jason Thomas

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