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Don't put "linux_banner" in the .init section

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It might save a few bytes after bootup, but it causes the string to be
linked in at the end of the final vmlinux image, which defeats the whole
point of doing all this, namely allowing some broken user-space binaries
to search for the kernel version string in the kernel binary.

So just remove the __init specifier.

Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds 2007-01-11 18:18:04 -08:00
parent 0404f87f2e
commit c71551ad30
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@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
}; };
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns);
/* FIXED STRING! Don't touch! */ /* FIXED STRINGS! Don't touch! */
const char __init linux_banner[] = const char linux_banner[] =
"Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@" "Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@"
LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n"; LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n";