Re: const __init

Franz Sirl
2001-05-20T20:15:09Z

On Sunday 20 May 2001 21:51, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Since a while include/linux/init.h contains the line
>
> * Also note, that this data cannot be "const".
>
> Why is this? Because const data will be put in a different section?

Yes, and gcc3 errors on these constructs, cause it cannot decide if the data
should be put into a .data or .rodata section.
Dunno if it's worth to create a __initconstdata/__initrodata though, but it
would be easy implement I guess.

> drivers/video/aty128fb.c

Fixed in bk 2_4.

Franz.