Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 10:03:12 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.4-ac6 compile error in plip.c |
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:53:09PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > The first __initdata is marked as const, the second is not, a section > cannot contain both const and non-const data. Against 2.4.4-ac6.
So we should also update the documentation to reflect this.
--- linux-2.4.4/include/linux/init.h.orig Wed May 9 21:33:38 2001 +++ linux-2.4.4/include/linux/init.h Fri May 11 09:53:57 2001 @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ * Don't forget to initialize data not at file scope, i.e. within a function, * as gcc otherwise puts the data into the bss section and not into the init * section. + * + * Also note, that this data cannot be "const". */ #ifndef MODULE --- linux-2.4.4/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl.orig Fri Apr 6 19:42:55 2001 +++ linux-2.4.4/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl Fri May 11 09:58:45 2001 @@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ </para> <para> Static data structures marked as <type>__initdata</type> must be initialised - (as opposed to ordinary static data which is zeroed BSS). + (as opposed to ordinary static data which is zeroed BSS) and cannot be + <type>const</type>. </para> </sect1> Regards
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