>>> Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13.06.07 06:35 >>> >> >> Yup, we were only discussing possibility that modpost not complain >> about .init -> .exit references that will never go oops (because the arch >> guarantees that). > >And there are no good reasosns why the rules should be different for i386 >and powerpc. >This type of special casing is always bad. >Think about it a little. >Someone writes a generic driver and test it on i386 - OK. >But for powerpc it result in a build failure. It would be so much better >to warn about this situation early.
And I didn't mean to special case it - I meant to suggest changing the semantics generally, which is why I gave the example of calling cleanup code (__exit) from error paths in startup code (__init). Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
