Re: [PATCH] also discard .*init sections after module initialization

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 01.07.09 07:22 >>>
>On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:27:26 pm Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Just like .init, these sections are supposed to be unneeded after init,
>> and modpost warns about improper section references anyway.
>
>Tim Abbot had a section renaming patch, for -ffunction-sections.  Can we kill 
>two birds with one stone and have a unique string for init sections, and 
>another for exit sections?

Not sure, would need to see what that patch does first. And then, the patch
here doesn't do any renaming.

>> Likewise
>> for .*exit which, other than .exit, aren't needed for the module unload
>> path.
>
>Currently true, but I can't see that being true in general.

Why? .*exit sections deal with device/memory/CPU hot remove, which is
orthogonal to module unload.

Jan

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