Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:05:53 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Regression: commit "ide: constify struct ide_port_info" causes breakage |
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:30:20 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > > > We can just convert cariables declared as 'struct hpt_info' to > > const too -- they are read-only templates. > > Generally "__devinitdata" is better than "const", since it means that > the data may be thrown away. > > So if you drop one over the other, it's generally the "const" that > should be dropped ;/ >
we could do a __constdevinitdata that translate to "const" for the "not throw away" cases, and to the throw-away secontion for the other cases... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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