diff -ur linux.vanilla/include/linux/init.h linux/include/linux/init.h
--- linux.vanilla/include/linux/init.h	Mon May 14 15:51:20 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/init.h	Mon May 14 15:54:05 2001
@@ -155,4 +155,9 @@
 #define __devexitdata __exitdata
 #endif
 
+#define __init_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __initdata = (x); msg; })
+#define __exit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __exitdata = (x); msg; })
+#define __devinit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __devinitdata = (x); msg; })
+#define __devexit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __devexitdata = (x); msg; })
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_INIT_H */