Re: [PATCH 1/2] init.h: Remove __dev* sections from the kernel

From: Bill Pemberton
Date: Fri Nov 30 2012 - 15:43:00 EST


H. Peter Anvin writes:
>
> On 11/29/2012 10:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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
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