linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures

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Date:	Sat, 9 Feb 2008 02:35:08 +0300
From:	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	rth@...ddle.net, tony.luck@...el.com, anton@...ba.org,
	paulus@...ba.org, bunk@...nel.org, kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:46:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I think it would have been better to define a new CONFIG_MODULEPARAM_CONST
> for those three archictures, rather than muckying up the code like this.

I'd prefer to keep this as is for now (sorta the uglier the better ;-)
I really hope it's the short term solution as we need some feedback from gcc
folks. We use named sections quite a lot, but gcc is sort of unfriendly with
these, and this particular problem is not the main one.
For instance, if someone dares to put a 'switch' statement into discarded
section (__exit), the final link fails (on any arch!), because gcc generates
a jump table in .rodata which references that discarded section...

Ivan.
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