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Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. 
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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.