Re: [PATCH] ia64: fix a few section mismatch warnings

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:18:13AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:01:41PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>   
> > +static void *__init_refok alloc_rte(unsigned long size)
> > +{
> > +	return alloc_bootmem(size);
> > +}
> 
> That makes no sense at all.  If we ever call that after freeing initmem,
> we are screwed, period.  Sounds like __init fodder.

The call site has logic to prevent this from being called after init.
And the call site cannot be made __init and to limit the scope of
the __init_refok a small function is used.

So unless I mis-understood something the above should be OK.

	Sam
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