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On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:16:11 +0200, 
Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> wrote:
>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.

Not worth it.  Adding finer grained init.data sections requires changes
to every architecture's vmlinux.lds script but it gains you nothing,
the sections are discarded after the kernel has booted.