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FromRusty Russell <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Modules 3/3: Sort sections
DateThu, 02 Jan 2003 21:35:54 +1100
In message <20030101.211536.121172392.davem@redhat.com> you write:
>    From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
>    Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:58:36 -0800
> 
>    On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:50:03PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    > I think this is to get .foo.init sections.
> 
>    Obviously.  Perhaps the question was worded badly.  Instead read
>    it as "Why don't we force this to be called .init.foo instead?"
> 
> This new naming order was created recently, but I forget the reason.
> It used to be .init.foo

No, it used to be .foo.init, but -ffunction-sections calls its
functions <funcname>.init, so it was changed to .init.foo.

Of course, the simpler prefix test should now be sufficient.
Rusty.
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