How to understand the macro __init?

[Ezequiel Garcia]

Hey wanny,

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.. :)
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:14 AM, 王哲 <wangzhe5004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i use the __init for function print_k.
>> in my opinion  after the fisrt invoking the print_k in the hello_init.
>> the memory of print_k will be freed,and the second invoking will
>> not be executed.but the result of second invoking is executing .
>>
>> why?
>
> because you're still in module_init.... :)
>
>

Yes, and the function is still in the stack!

On the other hand.. think what would happen if things would work
like you say.

We would have a *very* strange behavior,
and pretty counter-intuitive, don't you think so?