On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:35:43PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > We have gotten rid of devinit markup. A recent patch of Linus' makes me > wonder if we similarly should get rid of cpuinit markup? > > Just as with devices, the CPU hotplug machinery has been leveraged to > support a number of pieces of functionality such as suspend, which means > that on anything but the most embedded systems this functionality is > likely needed anyway. > > On x86-64, for an "allyesconfig" build, the total amount of space in all > the .cpu* sections combined is 100K.
No objection from me on removing it, it just causes problems from what I can tell. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
