Re: [PATCH] pstore: remove __exit annotation for ramoops_remove

[Geliang Tang]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 04:52:33PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The remove function of a device driver should not be marked
> __exit, because that section gets discarded for built-in drivers,
> and it is still possible to manually unbind a driver from a
> device, which would result in a runtime error.
> 
> The kernel also produces a link error for this when the module
> is built-in:
> 
> `ramoops_remove' referenced in section `.data' of fs/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of fs/built-in.o

I can't see why it wasn't reported as an error on my machine.
But I think you are right. __exit should't be there.

Acked-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxx>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 2adb611ef932 ("pstore: add pstore unregister")
> 
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> index 68889a727bc7..319c3a60cfa5 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ fail_out:
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> -static int __exit ramoops_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static int ramoops_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct ramoops_context *cxt = &oops_cxt;
>  

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