Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965044AbXAJTdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:33:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965045AbXAJTdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:33:04 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:45087 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965044AbXAJTdB (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:33:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:32:22 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jean Delvare cc: Roman Zippel , Andrey Borzenkov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Herbert Poetzl , Olaf Hering Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070109102057.c684cc78.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070109170550.AFEF460C343@tzec.mtu.ru> <20070109214421.281ff564.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070110181053.3b3632a8.khali@linux-fr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 20 On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Which is why "__init" is wrong. It causes the linker to either put it at > the end of the thing (which would break the SuSE tool). Alternatively it > causes section mismatch problems ("init" and "const" don't work that well > together), in which case it might work, but only due to toolchain bugs. > > Grr. Does anybody have the silly SuSE kernel version tool, and could test that without the "__init" it all actually works? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/