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 <[email protected]> Cc: Jean Delvare <[email protected]> Cc: Roman Zippel <[email protected]> Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mrcsosa · Jan 12, 2007 · c71551a · c71551a
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commit c71551a
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diff --git 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";