linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add a printk_init variant storing format strings in _

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Message-Id: <1212569792.4042.52.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:56:32 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, pavel@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a printk_init variant storing format strings in
	__initdata

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:27 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> +#define printk_init(fmt, args...) \
> +do { \
> +        static char __printk_init_fmt[] __initdata = fmt; \
> +        __printk_init(__printk_init_fmt, ##args); \
> +} while (0)

Hm, do these strings still get merged? Perhaps we want them in
a .initdata.str section on their own?

Bonus points for letting the linker 'merge' such strings into the
real .rodata.str section if they exist there too.

-- 
dwmw2

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