The patch titled modules: no need to align .modinfo strings has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: modules: no need to align .modinfo strings From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> gcc aligns strings as a performance consideration for those cases where strings are being used a lot. Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to save some space. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/moduleparam.h~modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings include/linux/moduleparam.h --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h~modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings +++ a/include/linux/moduleparam.h @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ #define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b) #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \ static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[] \ - __used \ - __attribute__((section(".modinfo"),unused)) = __stringify(tag) "=" info + __used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1))) \ + = __stringify(tag) "=" info #else /* !MODULE */ #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html