> I think that this is a GCC problem, so it should be fixed in GCC, not by
> obfuscating the kernel code. I have some ideas about how to make EGCS understand
> some function attribute setting default section for read-only data (including
> strings), but I still didn't have time to write a patch (I hope I'll have soon).
Ok. I'm looking forward to this feature. In the meantime I make two
divided patches. The first contains the initfunc attributes which can make
into the mainstream kernel immediately and the second one for people like
me with low-memory machines where every free (better: swappable) byte
counts...
Besides maintaining the second patch gives us an idea about which strings
should be made __init when GCC has support for this.
Regards,
Matze
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