linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:59:14 +0200
From:	"Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@...il.com>
To:	"Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@...il.com>,
	"Tomas Carnecky" <tom@...ervice.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

On 1/23/07, Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Rossell, I am confused.
> > There are many places in kernel where there is static __initdata
> > without initialization. Should all these be corrected too? Or your
> > comment applies only to none static global data?
>
> From what I remembered from previous mails on this list (which is what
> caused me to pick up on this), and what I later quoted from the gcc
> manual, all those places (where something is marked __initdata but is
> not explicitly initialised) would appear to be incorrect.
>
> So they should probably be fixed up.

Well... A lot of places in the kernel needs to be fixed, regardless
this patch... I can probably creat a patch for this as well... But
since I don't an expert in this one... We need to be sure this should
be fixed.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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