[PATCH 1/3] arm64: efistub: drop __init annotation from handle_kernel_image()

Matt Fleming matt at codeblueprint.co.uk
Wed Feb 3 07:19:27 PST 2016


On Tue, 02 Feb, at 12:09:41PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 2 February 2016 at 12:08, Matt Fleming <matt at codeblueprint.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > What about,
> >
> > #define __init __compiletime_error("__init not supported in EFI boot stub")
> >
> 
> That only works for invocations, i.e., it needs to be used in header
> files, and will trigger the error if a call to the function remains
> after optimization. We want it at function definition time instead.

Good point.

OK, how about we just do the #undef, call it good, and I add the task
of printing some helpful error message to my growing TODO list?



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