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James Bottomley napsal(a):
>>> could we not at least make the machinery do something vaguely
>>> useful and expand it to confine the pm routines to sections which can be
>>> discarded if CONFIG_PM is n?
>> a) it would need to be discarded at link-time, ideally.
> 
> Yes, the same way the exit sections are: as linker discards.  We also
> have the mechanics for runtime discards which is useful for modules

No it doesn't, exits are discarded at runtime only. At least on x86.