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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:07:16 -0800
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:55:30 -0800
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

> If I have:
> 
> void __init setup(void)
> {
> 	static int data;
> ...
> 
> Does data automatically get put into the initdata section?  Or does
> it need the __initdata tag as well?

It needs __initdata.  gcc doesn't know that __init and __initdata are
related things - as far as the compiler is concerned, they're all just
sections.