From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030380Ab2K3UnM (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:43:12 -0500 Received: from viridian.itc.Virginia.EDU ([128.143.12.139]:33605 "EHLO viridian.itc.virginia.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030301Ab2K3UnJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:43:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] init.h: Remove __dev* sections from the kernel To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:43:08 -0500 Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell), jim.cromie@gmail.com (Jim Cromie), borislav.petkov@amd.com (Borislav Petkov), akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton), ak@linux.intel.com (Andi Kleen), mmarek@suse.cz (Michal Marek), tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren), kliegs@chromium.org (Jonathan Kliegman), chris@zankel.net (Chris Zankel), fengguang.wu@intel.com (Fengguang Wu), sam@ravnborg.org (Sam Ravnborg), linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org (linux-kbuild) In-Reply-To: <50B91965.5030007@zytor.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5.8.59.gd925] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20121130204308.7FDA08019A@viridian.itc.virginia.edu> From: wfp5p@viridian.itc.virginia.edu (Bill Pemberton) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin writes: > > On 11/29/2012 10:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > 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? > That's how I've been generating the patches to remove the markings -- except it's a perl script. -- Bill