linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] Avoid section type conflict in dma/ioat/dma

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Message-ID: <4DEEAF25.5040104@intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:07:17 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Avoid section type conflict in dma/ioat/dma_v3.c

On 6/7/2011 3:26 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen<ak@...ux.intel.com>
>
> const __read_mostly is not legal and causes section type conflicts.
> That's because the read.mostly section is not read only.
> Simply drop the const for the read mostly fields.
>
> Cc: dan.j.williams@...el.com

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>

I don't have any other ioatdma stuff pending so I'm happy for this to go 
in through another tree.

--
Dan
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