On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:53:09PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> The first __initdata is marked as const, the second is not, a section
> cannot contain both const and non-const data. Against 2.4.4-ac6.
So we should also update the documentation to reflect this.
--- linux-2.4.4/include/linux/init.h.orig Wed May 9 21:33:38 2001
+++ linux-2.4.4/include/linux/init.h Fri May 11 09:53:57 2001
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
* Don't forget to initialize data not at file scope, i.e. within a function,
* as gcc otherwise puts the data into the bss section and not into the init
* section.
+ *
+ * Also note, that this data cannot be "const".
*/
#ifndef MODULE
--- linux-2.4.4/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl.orig Fri Apr 6 19:42:55 2001
+++ linux-2.4.4/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl Fri May 11 09:58:45 2001
@@ -713,7 +713,8 @@
</para>
<para>
Static data structures marked as <type>__initdata</type> must be initialised
- (as opposed to ordinary static data which is zeroed BSS).
+ (as opposed to ordinary static data which is zeroed BSS) and cannot be
+ <type>const</type>.
</para>
</sect1>
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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