On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:31:25PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 1/23/07, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So it will be fine if I initialize it to "" and remove the static from > >> the your example? > > > >Why do you want to remove the static? > > Rossell, I am confused. > There are many places in kernel where there is static __initdata > without initialization. Should all these be corrected too? Or your > comment applies only to none static global data?
>From what I remembered from previous mails on this list (which is what caused me to pick up on this), and what I later quoted from the gcc manual, all those places (where something is marked __initdata but is not explicitly initialised) would appear to be incorrect. So they should probably be fixed up. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/