From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dean Nelson Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:43:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix setting of sn_hub_info->shub_1_1_found Message-Id: <20050603194341.GA24711@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <42A04C38.mailxA351PB0RI@aqua.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <42A04C38.mailxA351PB0RI@aqua.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:36:07PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > >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). > > I'd never noticed that ... but it does make sense. I wonder whether there > are any other __initdata declarations, written by people as clueless as me, > that are wrong? I'd assume there are other uninitialized uses of __initdata declarations. This one had been. I'm assuming that you will be keeping my first hunk.