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Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:25:59 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	romieu@...zoreil.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SIS190] Constify data marked as __devinitdata

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:23:23PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Jan 30 2008 11:53, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> >
> >This fixes build error as gcc complains about a "section type conflict"
> >due to the const __devinitdata in sis190_get_mac_addr_from_apc().
> 
> >-static struct pci_device_id sis190_pci_tbl[] __devinitdata = {
> >+static const struct pci_device_id sis190_pci_tbl[] __devinitdata = {
> > 	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, 0x0190), 0, 0, 0 },
> > 	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, 0x0191), 0, 0, 1 },
> > 	{ 0, },
> 
> Eh? Did you mean to
> 
> -        static const u16 __devinitdata ids[] = { 0x0965, 0x0966, 0x0968 };
> +        static u16 __devinitdata ids[] = { 0x0965, 0x0966, 0x0968 };
> 
> instead? Because AFAIK, const *and* __sectionmarker does not mix.

We have just introduced __initconst, __cpuinitconst, __meminitconst
for const data.
So the patch is wrong.

	Sam
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