Subject: + inith-document-the-existence-of-__initconst.patch added to -mm tree
To: geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:50:05 -0700
The patch titled
Subject: init.h: document the existence of __initconst
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
inith-document-the-existence-of-__initconst.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/inith-document-the-existence-of-__initconst.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/inith-document-the-existence-of-__initconst.patch
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: init.h: document the existence of __initconst
Initdata can be const since more than 5 years, using the __initconst
keyword.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/init.h | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/init.h~inith-document-the-existence-of-__initconst include/linux/init.h
--- a/include/linux/init.h~inith-document-the-existence-of-__initconst
+++ a/include/linux/init.h
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
* extern int initialize_foobar_device(int, int, int) __init;
*
* For initialized data:
- * You should insert __initdata between the variable name and equal
- * sign followed by value, e.g.:
+ * You should insert __initdata or __initconst between the variable name
+ * and equal sign followed by value, e.g.:
*
* static int init_variable __initdata = 0;
* static const char linux_logo[] __initconst = { 0x32, 0x36, ... };
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@
* Don't forget to initialize data not at file scope, i.e. within a function,
* as gcc otherwise puts the data into the bss section and not into the init
* section.
- *
- * Also note, that this data cannot be "const".
*/
/* These are for everybody (although not all archs will actually
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
genirq-correct-fuzzy-and-fragile-irq_retval-definition.patch
makefile-enable-werror=implicit-int-and-werror=strict-prototypes-by-default.patch
mm-kconfig-fix-grammar-s-an-a.patch
syscallsh-use-gcc-alias-instead-of-assembler-aliases-for-syscalls.patch
scripts-mod-modpostc-handle-non-abs-crc-symbols.patch
inith-document-the-existence-of-__initconst.patch
linux-next.patch
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