__init dependencies (was: Re: [PATCH] find_isa_irq_pin can't be)__init

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 06:36:59 EST


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Dave Jones wrote:
> As spotted by one of our Fedora users, we sometimes
> oops during shutdown (http://www.roberthancock.com/kerneloops.png)
> because disable_IO_APIC() wants to call find_isa_irq_pin(),
> which we threw away during init.

I guess it's about time for a tool to autodetect __init dependencies?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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