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

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Message-ID: <20070123115405.GC20660@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:54:05 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@...il.com>
Cc:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:31:25PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >> So it will be fine if I initialize it to "" and remove the static from
> >> the your example?
> >
> >Why do you want to remove the static?
> 
> 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.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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