Newer asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h provides a DATA_DATA macro which defines the content of what is normally referred to by *(.data). It permits adding more "subsections" (declared by gcc with the section attribute or in assembly), which will be linked in the .data section. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: starvik@axis.com CC: dev-etrax@axis.com --- arch/cris/arch-v10/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- arch/cris/arch-v32/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/cris/arch-v10/vmlinux.lds.S =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/cris/arch-v10/vmlinux.lds.S 2007-06-16 22:12:58.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/cris/arch-v10/vmlinux.lds.S 2007-06-16 22:13:28.000000000 -0400 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ ___data_start = . ; __Sdata = . ; .data : { /* Data */ - *(.data) + DATA_DATA } __edata = . ; /* End of data section */ _edata = . ; Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/cris/arch-v32/vmlinux.lds.S =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/cris/arch-v32/vmlinux.lds.S 2007-06-16 22:13:03.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/cris/arch-v32/vmlinux.lds.S 2007-06-16 22:13:42.000000000 -0400 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ ___data_start = . ; __Sdata = . ; .data : { /* Data */ - *(.data) + DATA_DATA } __edata = . ; /* End of data section. */ _edata = . ; -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/