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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2007-01-11 18:18:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2007-01-11 18:18:04 -0800
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Don't put "linux_banner" in the .init section
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/version.c')
-rw-r--r--init/version.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c
index 55abe76f4ec..6c01ec1cc48 100644
--- a/init/version.c
+++ b/init/version.c
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns);
-/* FIXED STRING! Don't touch! */
-const char __init linux_banner[] =
+/* FIXED STRINGS! Don't touch! */
+const char linux_banner[] =
"Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@"
LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n";