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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add prefetches in net/ipv4/route.c
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:39:16 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:16:16 +0200

> Last time I checked, read_mostly had a meaning only if CONFIG_X86 ||
> CONFIG_SPARC64

Meaning that other platforms need to implement this,
big deal :)

I do agree that the implementor of __read_mostly should
have just let the build break instead so folks could
simply be forced to fix things up.

It's actually a trivial change, and the author therefore
could also have updated all the platform's vmlinux.lds.S files
instead of ifdef'ing this stuff.