Re: [PATCH 31/34] move virtrng_remove to .devexit.text

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 05:31:15 EST


Hello,

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:12:18AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:44:48AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 10:28:35 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> > > The function virtrng_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define
> > > it using __devexit.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> FWIW
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
ok

> > It seems that there are similar changes possible in other virtio drivers (e.g.
> > virtio_net).
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/896297/focus=896309

> Yes, and more importantly drivers/virtio/virtio.c as well.
Hm, I don't see it:

$ git grep -E '__(dev)?exit_p' linus/master:drivers/virtio/virtio.c

$

Well, you could add something, but adding __devexit is a noop for most
kernels. It matters only if you don't have CONFIG_HOTPLUG.

In this series I only addressed drivers that use __{,dev}exit and
__{,dev}exit_p inconsistenly. I.e. my script greps for __{,dev}exit_p
and checks the prototype of the wrapped function. I have another
script that does a similar check for platform_devices in general. This
one also notices if you have a __devexit function that isn't wrapped by
__devexit_p.

So if you want to see drivers/virtio/virtio.c improving, send patches
yourself :-)

Best regards
Uwe

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