Re: [patch 1/2] add __[start|end]_rodata sections to asm-generic/sections.h

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:03:21 +0200
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> 
> Add __start_rodata and __end_rodata to sections.h to avoid extern declarations.
> Needed by s390 code (see following patch).
>
> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
>  include/asm-generic/sections.h |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
> index 0b49f9e..962cad7 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
> @@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ extern char _end[];
>  extern char __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];
>  extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[];
>  extern char __initdata_begin[], __initdata_end[];
> +extern char __start_rodata[], __end_rodata[];
>  

OK.  I'll queue this up and will clean up x86, parisc and x86_64 to suit.

The second patch could go via the shiny new s390 git tree if you like.  Or
I can handle it, but I don't know if it's a for-2.6.18 thing.

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