Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

Keith Owens
2001-06-29T02:30:50Z

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:14:15 +0100 (BST),
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>Q: Would it be worth making the module author/version strings survive in
>a non modular build but stuffed into their own section so you can pull them
>out with some magic that we'd include in 'REPORTING-BUGS'

Bloats the running kernel. Startup messages should be issued by __init
code and the messages should be __initdata. There is no point in
holding onto those strings after boot.