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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] extable: Make sure all archs define _sdata
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 22:21:47 +0200
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> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> 
> Although I suppose if we're supposedly standardizing on _sdata,
> the two uses of _data in arch/alpha/mm/ could be transitioned.

>>From include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:

 *
 *      _sdata = .;
 *      RO_DATA_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
 *      RW_DATA_SECTION(...)
 *      _edata = .;
 *

So yes - we do standardize on _sdata.
Other symbols for the same ought to be replaced...

	Sam