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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix section type conflict in arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hej1iyx4x.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4919C43F.3030009@goop.org>

At Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:43:27 -0800,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > Here is.
> >
> > __initdata and const cannot be always a happy pair and
> > x86 xen has the potential issue.
> > This patch simply removes const from data with __initdata
> > under arch/x86/xen/.
> >   
> 
> No, I think the proper fix is to use __initconst.

The problem is that it depends on gcc version which section it goes.
Thus __initconst could break some gcc versions as well.


Takashi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-06 16:48 Takashi Iwai
2008-11-06 18:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-06 19:15   ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-06 21:48   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-11-11  7:51     ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-11  8:15       ` Isaku Yamahata
2008-11-11  8:18         ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-11  8:56           ` Isaku Yamahata
2008-11-11 17:43             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-11 17:45               ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2008-11-11 18:47                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-11 19:04                   ` Takashi Iwai
2008-11-12 18:19                     ` Sam Ravnborg

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