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Date:	Tue, 31 May 2011 19:25:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com
Cc:	mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Section conflict compile failures in net

From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:42:50 +0900

> It's really, as has been said, a compiler problem: the compiler is
> confused about the read only sections.  However, 4.2 is a pretty common
> compiler (especially for non-x86), so if the compiler can't do the read
> only section tracking, just not using the __devinitconst designation
> globally seems to be the best thing, just change it to __devinitdata
> instead.

I think I'm just going to do a full revert then.

You guys work out how to arrive at a solution that solves the problem
he was originally trying to solve, yet doesn't break this gcc-4.2
case.

Thanks.
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