On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 08:14:46AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/31] Constify struct super_operations for 2.6.32 v1
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> > -   	struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);
> > +   	struct inode *(* const alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);
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> Good rule is if adding const doesn't move object from one section
> to another, it isn't worth it.

On MIPS I've changed a few pointer arguments that frequently were abused
by platform-specific code to const just to make sure such code blows up
at compile time and not later in my mail folder at review time.

  Ralf