Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Apr 2015 02:28:51 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a test for const with __read_mostly uses |
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 05:14:49PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly. They are read-only. > > Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts > with LTO linking. > > So add a test to try to avoid this issue.
Thanks Joe. Looks good thanks. I suspect excluding * will miss quite a few cases, but there's no way around it.
-Andi
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