Re: [PATCH] Clean up the bootmem allocator

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:58:11 -0700
Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It also removes __init tags in the header file and hopefully make it
> > easier to read. 
> 
> I think I kinda like when these are present in headers.  I usually
> stumble across the header declarations before I do the ones in the .c
> files, and it is always nice to see the header visually _matching_
> the .c file, and how the variable is intended to be used

__init in headers is pretty useless because the compiler doesn't check it,
and they get out of sync relatively frequently.  So it you see an __init
in a header file, it's quite unreliable and you need to check the
definition anyway.
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