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Date:   Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:40:31 +0200
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>
Cc:     julia.lawall@...6.fr, nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com,
        benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: annotate fb_fix_screeninfo with const and
 __initconst

On Sunday, August 20, 2017 11:14:51 PM Bhumika Goyal wrote:
> Make these const as they are only used during a copy operation.
> Some structures are used as a copy operation inside __init functions, so
> make them const and replace __initdata with __initconst to avoid section
> conflict error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>

Patch queued for 4.14, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics