linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trivial

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Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:53:23 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial - constify sched.h

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:55:49PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> "those callers". There was _exactly one_ caller, and that was an out-of-tree
> module. There were not any in-kernel callers before, and it did not generate
> any warning. That is perhaps why no one had constified it before me. This does
> not mean we should wait for a caller to pop up before constifying IMHO.

In this case we should just kill it instead of messing with constness.

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