Re: [PATCH 00/34] __initdata cleanup

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 12:41:37 EST


Hi,

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Heiko Carstens wrote:

> And indeed all the __initdata annotated local and global variables on
> s390 are in the init.data section. So I'm wondering what this patch
> series is about. Or I must have missed something.

I think it reaches back to times when gcc 2.7.* was still supported, which
does behave as described in the documentation. gcc 2.95 and newer don't
require explicit initialization anymore, so this has become a non-issue.

bye, Roman
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