Re: [PATCH] add a printk_init variant storing format strings in__initdata

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:27 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> +#define printk_init(fmt, args...) \
> +do { \
> +        static char __printk_init_fmt[] __initdata = fmt; \
> +        __printk_init(__printk_init_fmt, ##args); \
> +} while (0)

Hm, do these strings still get merged? Perhaps we want them in
a .initdata.str section on their own?

Bonus points for letting the linker 'merge' such strings into the
real .rodata.str section if they exist there too.

-- 
dwmw2

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