On Thursday 25 October 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:53:34PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > CC drivers/ide/pci/generic.o > > drivers/ide/pci/generic.c:52: error: __setup_str_ide_generic_all_on causes a > > +section type conflict > > > > This sort of build error is becoming a regular issue. Either all or non > > of the elements that go into a particular section of a compilation unit > > need to be const. Or an error may result such as in this case if > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG is unset. > So we can avoid this if we invent a __constinitdata tag that uses > a new section? I asked similar question on LKML few days ago together with the list of potentially problematic places: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/594427 Now I see that the list is only partially complete since __initdata and co. may be also hidden in things like __setup() etc. Thanks, Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html