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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/38] move atp870u_remove to .devexit.text
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:38:24 +0100
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On Tuesday 24 November 2009 10:38:16 pm James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:06 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > The function atp870u_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define
> > it using __devexit.
> 
> But there's really no point to this.  HOTPLUG is always defined on SCSI
> systems that have these drivers, which means that _devinit/exit are
> nops.  That makes the change purely cosmetic and not worth churning two
> dozen drivers for.

Looking at things from a bit different angle:

These tags still have some value as a documentation and help
in maintaining some level of the coherency between different
parts of a kernel (which is a Good Thing).

--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz