Re: [GIT PULL] Phase 2 of __cpuinit removal

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Jul 18 2013 - 01:24:18 EST


Hi Linus,

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:57:35 -0400 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Please pull the following to get phase two of the __cpuinit removal.
>
> With the __cpuinit infrastructure removed earlier, this group of commits
> only removes the function/data tagging that was done with the various
> (now no-op) __cpuinit related prefixes.
>
> Now that the dust has settled with yesterday's v3.11-rc1, there hopefully
> shouldn't be any new users leaking back in tree, but I think we can leave
> the harmless no-op stubs there for a release as a courtesy to those who
> still have out of tree stuff and weren't paying attention.
>
> Although the commits are against the recent tag to allow for minor context
> refreshes for things like yesterday's v3.11-rc1~ slab content, the patches
> have been largely unchanged for weeks, aside from such trivial updates.
>
> For detail junkies, the largely boring and mostly irrelevant history of
> the patches can be viewed at:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulg/cpuinit-delete.git
>
> If nothing else, I guess it does at least demonstrate the level of
> involvement required to shepherd such a treewide change to completion.
>
> This is the same repository of patches that has been applied to the
> end of the daily linux-next branches for the past several weeks.
>
> The branch below represents a direct "git am" of the above patch repo
> (that is similarly tagged with v3.11-rc1) to mainline's v3.11-rc1.

It would be good if this could go in soon as I am already seeing (so far
trivial) conflicts against some of these.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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