[PATCH 11/12] pinctrl: samsung: use __devinit section for init code

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Oct 2 08:57:08 EDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Monday 01 October 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>> > The samsung pinctrl driver has a probe function that is
>> > __devinit and that calls a lot of other functions that are
>> > marked __init, which kbuild complains about.
>> >
>> > Marking everything __devinit means that the code does not
>> > discarded when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is set, which is a little
>> > more wasteful, but also more consistent
>> >
>> > Without this patch, building exynos_defconfig results in:
>>
>> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>>
>> I think the Samsing pinctrl driver has landed into next from some
>> branch in ARM SoC so you probably know better than me
>> where this thing should be merged...
>>
>
> Sorry, I was too late for this one. Can you pick it up now that the
> driver is merged?

Sure I've queued it for my -rc fixes.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij



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