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Message-ID: <1447195195.2701.103.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:39:55 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	linux-geode@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 01:34 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 02:17:12PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 01:02 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:49:29PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > Is there a warning/info message produced by gcc and the
> > > > plug-in when a non-const declaration is converted to
> > > > const because of this attribute?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure I understand the question.  What would the warning
> > > say?
> > 
> > Perhaps something like:
> > 
> > declaration of struct <foo> converted to const by
> > __attribute__((do_const))
> 
> No one will ever think to turn on that output.  By the time they think
> of turning it on, it means they have already figured out the issue.

Dubious assertion.

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