From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 407/493] infiniband: remove use of __devexit
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:17:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121119231724.GA27526@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121119230006.GA2523@kroah.com>
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:00:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> I could just leave things alone, with CONFIG_HOTPLUG always enabled, but
> then people will continue to blindly use the __dev* markings, getting it
> wrong at times, but never realizing that they don't do anything anymore.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of leaving the capability to
remove the __dev* marked functions from the link, as is today,
independent of the other stuff CONFIG_HOTPLUG controls. But reviewing
your comments from the archive makes me think a motivation is misuse
of the __dev* markings..
Thanks for the insight,
Jason
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2012-11-19 21:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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