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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@telargo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce __init_exit function annotation
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:52:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5htzs3ulpf.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717130230.GB24780@uranus.ravnborg.org>

At Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:02:30 +0200,
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Domen Puncer wrote:
> > Introduce __init_exit, which is useful ie. for drivers that call
> > cleanup functions when they fail in __init functions.
> 
> This is wrong.
> On arm (just one example of several) the __exit section are discarded
> at buildtime so any reference from __init to __exit will cause the
> linker to error out.

Hmm, from what I see, it adds __init to the function.  There is no
reference to __exit.


Takashi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-17  8:02 [PATCH] introduce __init_exit function annotation Domen Puncer
2007-07-17  8:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-17  8:55   ` Domen Puncer
2007-07-17 13:02 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-17 14:52   ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2007-07-17 15:14     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-17 15:16       ` Takashi Iwai
2007-07-17 15:32         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-17 15:40           ` Takashi Iwai
2007-07-17 16:48             ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-17 17:02               ` Takashi Iwai
2007-07-17 19:44                 ` Domen Puncer
2007-07-17 17:48             ` Domen Puncer

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