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SubjectRe: [patch 4/4] Actually make the f_ops field const
FromArjan van de Ven <>
DateSat, 07 Jan 2006 09:13:04 +0100
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 00:00 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through
> >  this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it.
> >  (some of the "do stuff" is quite unpleasant..)
> 
> Right now is the worst possible time in the kernel cycle to be raising
> large many-file patches like this.  You need to either take a look at
> what's coming in -mm or wait until all the git trees have merged up then do
> the patch against -linus.
> 
> In this case there are mulitple new references to non-const file_operations
> added to Linus's tree by alsa 48 hours ago.

argh things move really fast; I'll redo it immediately

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