linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: remove duplicate const qualifier

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:12:46 +0200
From:	khalasa@...p.pl (Krzysztof Hałasa)
To:	Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@...tec.com>
Cc:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: remove duplicate const qualifier

Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@...tec.com> writes:

> I can't confirm it (haven't tried), and don't care enough to do it :]
> I guess I'm just dropping the patch then. Like I said, it can't hurt to
> leave them in.

Actually it may hurt (a little bit) - it makes the code less readable.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
Al. Jerozolimskie 202, 02-486 Warsaw, Poland