From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Bloatwatch 2.6.28-rc1: i8042 DMI lookup tables
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:20:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224922825.18031.16.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224905479.3248.126.camel@calx>
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.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-25 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 20:25 Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 22:15 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-10-24 23:13 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-25 0:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-25 3:31 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-25 8:20 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-10-26 0:28 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-10-25 8:14 ` David Woodhouse
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