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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:20:24 +0000
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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?

Sure, will do.

-apw
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