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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] decnet: "addr" module param can't be __initdata
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:31:11 -0800 (PST)
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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:36:29 +0300

> sysfs keeps references to module parameters via /sys/module/*/parameters,
> so marking them as __initdata can't work.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> 	modprobe decnet
> 	cat /sys/module/decnet/parameters/addr
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f88cd410
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>

Applied, thanks!