Re: [PATCH] Fix section mismatch warning.

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Thursday 20 November 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > -static struct twl4030_platform_data omap3evm_twldata = {
> > > > +static struct twl4030_platform_data __initdata omap3evm_twldata = {
> > > 
> > > ... and that's incorrect in any case, since that data is used 
> > > by probe() code that's doesn't sit in an init section.
> 
> __initdata_or_module would do the trick for static and dynamically
> linked modules.

Not in this case.  Recall there are several drivers who
would all need to be using non-hotpluggable structures ...
but since the root of their tree must be hotpluggable,
they can't work that way.


> When building it statically, we'd get a bit of 
> shrinkage, right ?

Can't work that way.