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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: felipe.balbi@nokia.com
Cc: "ext Premi, Sanjeev" <premi@ti.com>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix section mismatch warning.
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:14:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811201614.45094.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081120125529.GE7476@gandalf.research.nokia.com>

On Thursday 20 November 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > -static struct twl4030_platform_data omap3evm_twldata = {
> > > > +static struct twl4030_platform_data __initdata omap3evm_twldata = {
> > > 
> > > ... and that's incorrect in any case, since that data is used 
> > > by probe() code that's doesn't sit in an init section.
> 
> __initdata_or_module would do the trick for static and dynamically
> linked modules.

Not in this case.  Recall there are several drivers who
would all need to be using non-hotpluggable structures ...
but since the root of their tree must be hotpluggable,
they can't work that way.


> When building it statically, we'd get a bit of 
> shrinkage, right ?

Can't work that way.
 



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-21  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-19 13:52 [PATCH] Fix section mismatch warning Sanjeev Premi
2008-11-20  0:26 ` David Brownell
2008-11-20 12:44   ` Premi, Sanjeev
2008-11-20 12:55     ` Felipe Balbi
2008-11-21  0:14       ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-11-20 13:41     ` David Brownell

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