From: Anders Peter Fugmann <afu@fugmann.dhs.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] const initdata.
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:00:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B866C04.9090903@fugmann.dhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0108240051360.1732-100000@noodles.codemonkey.org.uk>
How "bad" is it to have __initdata declared static?
A quick scan through the kernel tree shows
that 27 .h and 355 .c files needa patching.
(a total of 845 places)
Numbers are from 2.4.9 kernel.
It should be very easy to correct through a script.
Regards
Anders Fugmann
Dave Jones wrote:
> As defined in in Rusty's kernel-hacking doc, __initdata must not be
> marked as const. Patch below does this for the PCI subsystem.
>
> *nb*, This kind of patch needs to be done in quite a few other
> places too.
>
> regards,
>
> Dave.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-24 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-23 23:55 [PATCH] const initdata Dave Jones
2001-08-24 15:00 ` Anders Peter Fugmann [this message]
2001-08-24 15:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-24 15:26 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
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