Re: [PATCH] x86: fix improper .init-type section references

>But then why not simply lose the __exit (and .exit.*) altogether? Because
>__exit becomes redundant in the suggested changed semantics -- just mark
>all the cleanup code as __init too (when it's built-in, the only
>callsite for the
>cleanup code would be from the startup code in .init.*, and when modular,
>__init and __exit lose all relevance anyway).

Because of the non-builtin case (__init still has significance in the modular case,
it's only __exit that doesn't). For the builtin case, __init could certainly be
identical to __exit.

Jan

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