Re: [PATCH] fix setting of sn_hub_info->shub_1_1_found

David Mosberger
2005-06-03T21:21:06Z

>>>>> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:09:25 -0500 (CDT), Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> said:

Russ> Tony Luck 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.

Is it really true though? .init.data is a section that is loaded from
the ELF file and AFAIK the toolchain zeroes data not explicitly
initialized.

--david