Re: Bloatwatch 2.6.28-rc1: i8042 DMI lookup tables

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 22:31 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Ideally, we'd find a way to (a) store variable-length string constants
> in init sections and (b) teach modpost about following pointers.

Doing (b) shouldn't be _so_ hard. Modpost already trawls through the
relocations, looking for naughty ones. Making it actually _do_ them when
it needs to shouldn't be impossible.

> Something like this would work inside code but sadly not inside
> declarations:
> 
> #define ISTR(s) ({static char c[] __attribute__ ((section("__initdata__"))) = s;c;})

Yeah, I played with that for a while, but gave up.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx                              Intel Corporation

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