Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:26:52 +0200 | From | Németh Márton <> | Subject | Re: __initdata and struct dmi_system_id? |
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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?
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:03:17 +0100 From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Subject: [PATCH] .init.rodata and modpost adjustments http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/5/126
Regards,
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