> 1. What are the char* -> char array conversions of "version" strings for ?
char*="blah" generates a char pointer variable, pointing to the constant
string "blah". char[]="blah" eliminates the char pointer variable, so
the resulting code is [slightly] smaller.
> 3. The following patch
> - marks most of the version strings __initdata/__devinitdata (necessary
> removing of "const" from their declaration), removes unnecessary format
> strings from their printk()s, moves to __init/adds log level markers to
> them (KERN_*)
> - adds/fixes some other __init code,
> - removes some unnecessary zero initializers
> from most of the network drivers.
looks ok at a glance, I will probably apply it after reviewing further.
note a further cleanup is to look at each driver, and make sure (a) it
-always- printk's version if -DMODULE, and (b) if only printk's version
if hardware is found, if not -DMODULE. You can look at pci net drivers
in 2.4.4-pre6 for an example of how I did this.
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