linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/17] mark const init data with __initconst instead of _

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Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:37:26 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Anatolij Gustschin <agust@...x.de>,
	Andreas Koensgen <ajk@...nets.uni-bremen.de>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Andrew Victor <linux@...im.org.za>,
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	Barry Song <baohua.song@....com>,
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	Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@...eaurora.org>,
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	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, Grant@...l.home,
	"Likely <gran"@igel.home
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata

Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> writes:

> After a question by Shawn Guo I noticed that my command to do the changes
> was to lax and changed things that must not be changed (at least not
> with further care). Affected are lines like:
>
> 	static const char *at91_dt_board_compat[] __initconst = {
>
> While at91_dt_board_compat[0] is const, at91_dt_board_compat is not.

Though it looks like at91_dt_board_compat should really be const (it is
assigned to a const pointer, likewise for all other uses of struct
machine_desc.dt_compat).

Andreas.

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