What is __init?

[Joy Sun]

Hi,

I am totally newbie for kernel device driver, and starting to learn.

When I see a driver code, I found __init. For example, static int __init
xxxx(struct platform_device *pdev)

I understand "static" and "int", but what is __init?

-J.
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