On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:13:05PM +0200, 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 ask mainly to understand this error - not that I am that found > of the idea. Yes. Ralf
