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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:54:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070123115405.GC20660@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e0cf0bf0701230331v6001f540p4d7b048126ce7fd@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:31:25PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >> So it will be fine if I initialize it to "" and remove the static from
> >> the your example?
> >
> >Why do you want to remove the static?
> 
> Rossell, I am confused.
> There are many places in kernel where there is static __initdata
> without initialization. Should all these be corrected too? Or your
> comment applies only to none static global data?

>From what I remembered from previous mails on this list (which is what
caused me to pick up on this), and what I later quoted from the gcc
manual, all those places (where something is marked __initdata but is
not explicitly initialised) would appear to be incorrect.

So they should probably be fixed up.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-23 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-18 12:58 [patch 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 01/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - common Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 02/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - alpha Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 14:14   ` Russell King
2007-01-18 14:48     ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-18 15:31     ` Tomas Carnecky
2007-01-18 15:23       ` Russell King
2007-01-18 15:31         ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-19 12:38         ` Bernhard Walle
2007-01-22 19:56         ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-22 20:00           ` Russell King
2007-01-22 20:31           ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-22 20:44             ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-22 20:58               ` Bernhard Walle
2007-01-22 21:02                 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-22 22:14         ` Bernhard Walle
2007-01-22 22:27           ` Russell King
2007-01-22 22:42             ` Bernhard Walle
2007-01-23 10:37             ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-23 10:41               ` Russell King
2007-01-23 10:50                 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-23 10:53                   ` Russell King
2007-01-23 10:59                     ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-23 11:31                     ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-23 11:54                       ` Russell King [this message]
2007-01-23 11:59                         ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-01-23 12:43                           ` Russell King
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 04/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm26 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 05/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - avr32 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 06/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - cris Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 07/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - frv Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 08/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - h8300 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 09/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - i386 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:58 ` [patch 10/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - ia64 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 11/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - m32r Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 12/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - m68k Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 13/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - m68knommu Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 14/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - mips Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 15/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - parisc Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 16/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - powerpc Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 17/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - ppc Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 18/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - s390 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 19/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - sh Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 20/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - sh64 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 21/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - sparc Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 22/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - sparc64 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 23/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - um Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 24/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - v850 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 25/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - x86_64 Bernhard Walle
2007-01-18 12:59 ` [patch 26/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - xtensa Bernhard Walle
     [not found] <7EFbN-34r-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <7EFbV-34r-45@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <7EGhI-4Rq-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <7EGKC-5vh-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-01-18 19:56       ` [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm Bodo Eggert
2007-01-22 11:38         ` Alon Bar-Lev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-02 10:47 [PATCH 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line Alon Bar-Lev
2006-12-02 10:49 ` [PATCH 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm Alon Bar-Lev
2006-09-03 22:15 [PATCH 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - Resend please ignore last Alon Bar-Lev
2006-09-03 22:17 ` [PATCH 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm Alon Bar-Lev
2006-09-03 21:50 [PATCH 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line Alon Bar-Lev
2006-09-03 21:53 ` [PATCH 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm Alon Bar-Lev

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