Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:10:25 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: const vs __{dev}initdata |
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that const cannot be (officialy) mixed with __{dev}initdata, > > include/linux/init.h: > ... > * > * Also note, that this data cannot be "const". > */ > ... > > [ BTW Greg: this doesn't seem to be mentioned in LDD3. ] > > Any reason for this limitation (other than not having .init.rodata section > and __const__{dev}initdata tag)? There are places where we really would like > to have both, i.e. struct ide_port_info in drivers/ide.
Thank you for asking this question... we really do need a solution for this.
As you point out, there are many valid cases for both const and initdata.
Jeff
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