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

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Message-Id: <479717C8.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:32:40 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, <mingo@...e.hu>,
	<tony.luck@...el.com>, <paulus@...ba.org>, <gregkh@...e.de>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] constify struct attribute_group uses (against
	-mm)

>>> Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> 22.01.08 23:15 >>>
>On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:31:21PM +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.
>
>Which -mm is this against?  Seems to not apply here :(

2.6.24-rc8-mm1 - I'm keeping the name in the diff headers so that one
can easily identify the baseline a patch is against, as in

--- 2.6.24-rc8-mm1-const.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c
+++ 2.6.24-rc8-mm1-const/arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c

Jan

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