Re: [PATCH] introduce __init_exit function annotation

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Tue Jul 17 2007 - 10:52:22 EST


At Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:02:30 +0200,
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Domen Puncer wrote:
> > Introduce __init_exit, which is useful ie. for drivers that call
> > cleanup functions when they fail in __init functions.
>
> This is wrong.
> On arm (just one example of several) the __exit section are discarded
> at buildtime so any reference from __init to __exit will cause the
> linker to error out.

Hmm, from what I see, it adds __init to the function. There is no
reference to __exit.


Takashi
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