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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	ak@suse.de, vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] Add BSS to resource tree
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:48:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018214836.GA3459@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071018142642.5b3f6ba4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> > +extern char _text[], _end[], _etext[], _edata[], _bss[];
> 
> These should be in a header file.

Normally the "no externs in .c" rule doesn't apply to assembler or linker 
script defined labels. That's because the point of the header file is to 
type check them, but there is nothing to type check here.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-18 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18 11:15 [patch 0/3] Protect crashkernel against BSS overlap Bernhard Walle
2007-10-18 11:15 ` [patch 1/3] Add BSS to resource tree Bernhard Walle
2007-10-18 21:26   ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-18 21:48     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-10-18 21:58       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-18 22:00         ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-18 22:18           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-18 22:20             ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-18 22:37             ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-18 22:45               ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-19  0:27             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-19 12:52     ` Bernhard Walle
2007-10-19 14:48     ` Bernhard Walle
2007-10-18 11:15 ` [patch 2/3] Introduce BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE Bernhard Walle
2007-10-18 11:15 ` [patch 3/3] Use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on x86 Bernhard Walle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-16 16:28 [patch 0/3] Protect crashkernel against BSS overlap Bernhard Walle
2007-10-16 16:28 ` [patch 1/3] Add BSS to resource tree Bernhard Walle

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