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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] init.h: Remove __dev* sections from the kernel
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On 11/29/2012 10:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> With the recent work to remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG, we are starting to get a
> bunch of __devinit section warnings, despite CONFIG_HOTPLUG always being
> enabled.  So, stop marking the sections entirely, by defining them away
> the section markings in init.h
>

Could we run a sed script over the kernel tree and generate patches to 
remove the markings completely?

	-hpa

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