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From: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix setting of sn_hub_info->shub_1_1_found
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:14:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050603191421.GA23827@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A04C38.mailxA351PB0RI@aqua.americas.sgi.com>

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:50:55AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >This explains why XPC has been so troublesome to load on older systems.
> >Thanks Dean!
> >
> >Tony, can this still get into 2.6.12?
> 
> Probably ... but the first hunk of the patch looks like a no-op,
> and contravenes some style guidlines about initializing global
> variables to 0.
> 
> -static int shub_1_1_found __initdata;
> +static int __initdata shub_1_1_found = 0;

It was my understanding from linux/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
that '__initdata' meant that the variable shub_1_1_found was not initialized
to anything (unlike ordinary static data).

Perhaps that is no longer (or never was) true? If so, then indeed ignore
the first hunk.

> Presumably you'd still like the second hunk?

But definitely apply the second hunk.

Thanks,
Dean

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-03 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-03 12:25 [PATCH] fix setting of sn_hub_info->shub_1_1_found Dean Nelson
2005-06-03 13:58 ` Robin Holt
2005-06-03 18:50 ` Luck, Tony
2005-06-03 19:14 ` Dean Nelson [this message]
2005-06-03 19:36 ` Luck, Tony
2005-06-03 19:43 ` Dean Nelson
2005-06-03 19:57 ` Luck, Tony
2005-06-03 21:09 ` Russ Anderson
2005-06-03 21:21 ` David Mosberger
2005-06-04  4:18 ` Keith Owens
2005-06-06  5:05 ` Luck, Tony
2005-06-06 16:57 ` David Mosberger
2005-06-06 17:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-06 17:25 ` David Mosberger

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