From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
len.brown@intel.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, dz@debian.org,
minyard@acm.org, j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org,
rlove@rlove.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
mzxreary@0pointer.de, stelian@popies.net, ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br,
ambx1@neo.rr.com, gimli@dark-green.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:33:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709011833.08581.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070901142719.GA31990@havoc.gtf.org>
> And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional
> optimizations on the part of the compiler.
Only if the kernel was compiled C++. C compilers generally ignore constness
for optimization purposes because it can be so easily casted away.
-Andi
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
len.brown@intel.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, dz@debian.org,
minyard@acm.org, j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org,
rlove@rlove.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
mzxreary@0pointer.de, stelian@popies.net, ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br,
ambx1@neo.rr.com, gimli@dark-green.com
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:33:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709011833.08581.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070901142719.GA31990@havoc.gtf.org>
> And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional
> optimizations on the part of the compiler.
Only if the kernel was compiled C++. C compilers generally ignore constness
for optimization purposes because it can be so easily casted away.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-01 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-01 14:27 [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 14:27 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 15:36 ` [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Greg KH
2007-09-01 15:36 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Greg KH
2007-09-01 16:01 ` [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 16:01 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Jeff Garzik
2007-09-09 17:51 ` [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Greg KH
2007-09-09 17:51 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Greg KH
2007-09-09 20:24 ` [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-09 20:24 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-09 21:12 ` [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Greg KH
2007-09-09 21:12 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Greg KH
2007-09-01 16:33 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-09-01 16:33 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-01 21:21 ` [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Satyam Sharma
2007-09-01 21:33 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Satyam Sharma
2007-09-02 17:17 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Jean Delvare
2007-09-02 17:17 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Jean Delvare
2007-09-11 21:54 ` [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-11 21:54 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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