From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:51:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] IA64: Use early_parm to handle mvec_name and nomca Message-Id: <44128F9D.7050402@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <20060310082445.GA18715@verge.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20060310082445.GA18715@verge.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Horms wrote: > > Below is a fressh diff that resolves those initialisation problems. You're still zero initializingn them in the new diff ;-( > I was actually thinking that the main drawback of this appoach was the > extra space devoted to these variables. Marking them as __init made the > linker very unhappy. Given their current delaration, will they just > stick around forever? > Yous hould be able to mark them __init, otherwise they just end up sticking around forever as you say. Grep around some other code in the vicinity to see how it's declared if it causes problems. Cheers, Jes