Re: Patch-2.1.106ac2-3

Sylvain Pion (Sylvain.Pion@sophia.inria.fr)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:40:02 +0200

On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 08:23:08AM -0400, grant@torque.net wrote:
> It's not always obvious what's right, though. A couple of my drivers
> were completely broken for several months because someone stuck in
> __initdata in places where it did not belong.

Is there a tool (or would it be easy to write), that checks these problems
automatically. It could verify if all __init symbols are not accessed from
all non __init functions. Is it feasible at link time by looking at the
symbol table, or something like that ?

-- 
Sylvain


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