Re: [PATCH] link errors with internal calls to devexit functions

[Keith Owens]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:04:19 +0100 (CET), 
Kai Germaschewski <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I'd rather think that the patch (and the original code) is broken, as it
>seems we call an __devexit function from an init function. So 
>the correct fix is to remove the __devexit attribute from the offending 
>functions.

Andrew Morton said the same thing and I agree.  The code is broken, no
amount of fancy wrappers will fix that.  This is the perfect example of
why the new binutils are good, they are catching broken code.