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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:19:05 +0000
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures
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To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 18:12 +0000, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, that's tricky and I don't have an answer but marking things as
> > const is a worth while in itself because it makes static some analysis
> > easier.
> 
> I'm not clear on how to proceed here...

I think not relying on gcc plugins would be good and
would not be harmful even with a future plugin use.

So I think sending patches to add const is good.