Re: [PATCH] -mm: acpi idle __read_mostly and de-init static var

[Andrew Morton]

Andreas Mohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> - don't remove static init value of nocst and bm_history
>    since __read_mostly may be special
>    (see e.g. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.0/0771.html)
> 

hm, that was six years ago.  I'm vaguely surprised that the initialisation
was needed even then.  It isn't needed now.  Or if it is, we need to find
out why and fix it.

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