Re: __initxxx

Regis Duchesne (regis@via.ecp.fr)
Sat, 7 Mar 1998 15:37:59 +0100 (CET)

> what __initfunc() and __initdata means, eg.
> static char *cpu_vendor_names[] __initdata = {.....
__initfunc() is a macro used to put its first argument (a function) into a
special ELF section that is dropped from memory once drivers's
initialization is over.

So if you write a initialization function, whose code will never be used
again after drivers are initialized, you can use __initfunc around its
declaration in order to reduce your running kernel size by a few KB (24
in my case) of memory

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