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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:43:01 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/20] inflate: mark some arrays as initdata
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:54:51PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> inflate: mark some arrays as INITDATA and define it in in-core callers

This breaks ARM.  Our decompressor has some rather odd requirements
due to the way we support PIC - it's PIC text with fixed data.

This means that all fixed initialised data must be "const" or initialised
by code.  This patch breaks that assertion.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core