Hi, On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andreas Mohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > - don't remove static init value of nocst and bm_history > > since __read_mostly may be special > > (see e.g. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.0/0771.html) > > > > hm, that was six years ago. I'm vaguely surprised that the initialisation > was needed even then. It isn't needed now. Or if it is, we need to find > out why and fix it. I guess 2.7.2 was still a valid compiler then. :) All later versions don't behave like this, although it's still documented like this: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
