Re: [PATCH] Modules 3/3: Sort sections

Richard Henderson
2003-01-02T04:51:02Z

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:50:03PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> Incidentally, why do we do strstr(name, ".init") instead
> of strncmp(name, ".init", 5)? Is there any particular
> need for the .init to come at the end?
>
> I think this is to get .foo.init sections.

Obviously. Perhaps the question was worded badly. Instead read
it as "Why don't we force this to be called .init.foo instead?"

r~