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Message-ID: <471E7151.8070805@garzik.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:10:25 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: const vs __{dev}initdata
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that const cannot be (officialy) mixed with __{dev}initdata,
>
> include/linux/init.h:
> ...
> *
> * Also note, that this data cannot be "const".
> */
> ...
>
> [ BTW Greg: this doesn't seem to be mentioned in LDD3. ]
>
> Any reason for this limitation (other than not having .init.rodata section
> and __const__{dev}initdata tag)? There are places where we really would like
> to have both, i.e. struct ide_port_info in drivers/ide.
Thank you for asking this question... we really do need a solution for
this.
As you point out, there are many valid cases for both const and initdata.
Jeff
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