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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] .init.rodata and modpost adjustments
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/5/126

Regards,

	Márton Németh
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