Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Add "Section mismatch" warning whitelistfor powerpc

[Stephen Rothwell]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:33:50 +0530 "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But I have slightly different (reversed) semantics for __init_refok
> in mind. Basically, we use __init_refok to annotate _callees_
> and not _callers_. In short, __init_refok is a _type_ of __init
> section that other sections can freely reference to, without
> modpost complaining about this. [ had suggested this in some
> previous thread earlier ]

But lots of __init routines cannot be called from just anywhere, it is
the special circumstances of some of the callers that makes the call from
non-init to init ok.  So you need to mark the callers specially.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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