[PATCH][RFC][REPOST] __init_msg(x) and friends macro

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Hi all,

soryy for such ugly subject line, but I already sent this patch=20
to LKML and didn't get any reply.

Patch adds __init_msg (and friends) macro that places its argument=20
(string constant) into corresponding .data.init section and returns
pointer to it. The goal of this patch is to allow constructions like this:

        static void __init foo(void)
	{
		printk(__init_msg(KERN_INFO "Some random long message "
				  "going to .data.init and then to bit bucket\n"));
	}

I hope this patch can save some memory and will be usefull :))

Best regards.

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Andrey Panin            | Embedded systems software engineer
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diff -ur linux.vanilla/include/linux/init.h linux/include/linux/init.h
--- linux.vanilla/include/linux/init.h	Mon May 14 15:51:20 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/init.h	Mon May 14 15:54:05 2001
@@ -155,4 +155,9 @@
 #define __devexitdata __exitdata
 #endif
=20
+#define __init_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __initdata =3D (x); msg; })
+#define __exit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __exitdata =3D (x); msg; })
+#define __devinit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __devinitdata =3D (x); msg; =
})
+#define __devexit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __devexitdata =3D (x); msg; =
})
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_INIT_H */

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