linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cris: Fix conflicting types for _etext, _edata,

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:24:23 +0100
From:   Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc:     Mikael Starvik <starvik@...s.com>,
        Jesper Nilsson <jespern@...s.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-cris-kernel@...s.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cris: Fix conflicting types for _etext, _edata, _end

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:12:51PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (01/05/18 11:47), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > Include asm/sections.h header which contains the correct
> > types for _etext, _edata and _end - char arrays.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> 
> Mikael, Jesper,
> 
> any opinions?

This looks sane, and I can take it in the CRIS tree,
allthough I'm currently pondering the future of the CRIS port,
lack of time and active hardware are increasing problems.

> 	-ss

/Jesper

> > ---
> >  arch/cris/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/cris/kernel/setup.c b/arch/cris/kernel/setup.c
> > index 524d47501a23..1b61a7207afb 100644
> > --- a/arch/cris/kernel/setup.c
> > +++ b/arch/cris/kernel/setup.c
> > @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/of_fdt.h>
> >  #include <asm/setup.h>
> >  #include <arch/system.h>
> > +#include <asm/sections.h>
> >  
> >  /*
> >   * Setup options
> > @@ -31,7 +32,6 @@
> >  struct screen_info screen_info;
> >  
> >  extern int root_mountflags;
> > -extern char _etext, _edata, _end;
> >  
> >  char __initdata cris_command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] = { 0, };
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.15.1
> > 

/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
-- 
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