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

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Message-ID: <20070123124312.GD20660@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:43:12 +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,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:59:14PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 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.

Don't particularly care; the amount of time spent discussing this issue
is becoming rather rediculous, so I'd rather we reached some conclusion
very soon; to this end this is going to be my last response on this
subject.

I suggest that we leave what's already there, but any new instances we
create are correct to the gcc manual.

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