Re: [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly"

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:59 -0700, christoph wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:30:03AM -0700, christoph wrote:
> > > Move syscall table, timer_hpet and the boot_cpu_data into the "mostly_readonly" section.
> > 
> > the syscall table should be completely readonly.
> 
> Why was it in .data in the first place? There must be some reason why it 
> was writable?

probably a historic oversight.


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