linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] constify struct attribute

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:26:36 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu, tony.luck@...el.com,
	paulus@...ba.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] constify struct attribute_group uses

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:37:55AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> .. as all consumers of it don't require it to be modifiable.
> 
> Unfortunately, due to the two-level constifications, this required
> touching quite many files, not all of which I am able to test - please
> bare with eventual mistakes or oversights.
> 
> The patch doesn't change all instances where 'const' could have been
> added as a result of the base structure changes, only where either the
> change has a real effect (the module loader doesn't enforce read-only
> section attributes at present, so only built-in files matter) or where
> compiler warnings would result otherwise.

Hm, code in these areas has changed a lot in -mm, can you respin this
against that tree to catch all of the different attribute changes that
has happened?

thanks,

greg k-h
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