linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clocksource: add __ro_after

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Date:   Sun, 12 Feb 2017 23:51:47 +0530
From:   Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: add __ro_after_init to cyclecounter

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, Bhumika Goyal wrote:
>
> Please be more careful with your subject line. The prefix for this is
> definitely not 'clocksource'. git log would have told you the proper one:
>
> clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer
>
> 'clocksource' is the general subsystem and used for system wide changes or
> core changes, but not for a particular driver.
>

I will be more careful about this in future.

Thanks,
Bhumika

>> The object cyclecounter of type cyclecounter is not getting modified
>> after getting initialized by arch_counter_register. Apart from
>> initialization in arch_counter_register it is also passed as an argument
>> to the function timecounter_init but this argument is of type const.
>> Therefore, add __ro_after_init to its declaration.
>
> Other than that this is fine. I'll fix it up when applying.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx