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SubjectRe: __initdata and struct dmi_system_id?
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Németh Márton wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Németh Márton wrote:
> >> The other interesting question on this topic is that what about the
> >> error message strings which are used as parameter of the printk() calls.
> >> Those strings are combined together for a function which is marked with
> >> __init and the functions which are normal functions. The strings which
> >> are only used by the functions marked with __init could be freed, but
> >> the strings of the normal functions shouldn't be.
> >
> > Yeah, if we could get them all in a init.rodata section, we could just throw
> > them away along with the init section afterwards...
> >
> > I do think I have seen a patch about init.rodata in LKML not too long ago,
> > though.
>
> Do you mean this one?

Yeah. I don't know if it does (or is related to) what you want, though.

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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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