Re: [PATCH] Fix section type conflict in arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 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.
>   

Why?  __initconst explicitly puts it in .init.rodata.

   J
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