On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 04:37:31PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:38:00 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >> --- linux-2617-rc6.orig/drivers/net/ne.c
> >> +++ linux-2617-rc6/drivers/net/ne.c
> >> @@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ that the ne2k probe is the last 8390 bas
> >> is at boot) and so the probe will get confused by any other 8390 cards.
> >> ISA device autoprobes on a running machine are not recommended anyway. */
> >>
> >> -int init_module(void)
> >> +int __init init_module(void)
> >> {
> >> int this_dev, found = 0;
> >
> >When you anyway touches the driver I suggest to name the function
> ><module>_init, <module>_cleanup and use module_init(), module_cleanup().
>
> Maybe not: in the ne.c driver init_module() is inside #ifdef MODULE,
> so conversion to ne_init() + module_init(ne_init) would be a no-op
> except for making the code larger. In the non-MODULE case Space.c
> calls ne_probe() directly.
The whole purpose of marking a function __init is to place in in a
section that can be discarded after init. This has the added advantage
that it kills off some ugly #ifdef MODULE / #endif as is the case for
ne.c
Even if not discarded then the code cleaniness is preferable to #ifdef /
#endif if purpose is only to save a few bytes.
Shifting to module_init(), module_cleanup() is the only right thing to
do - and the old behaviour is not even documented in LDD3 anymore.
[At least I did not find it last time I searched].
Sam
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