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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/17] ARM: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:50:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120330095024.GS15647@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120330061134.GD3254@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net>

Hello Shawn,

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:11:36PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:12:20PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> ...
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c
> > index 5cca573..7e00748 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c
> > @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static struct sys_timer imx51_timer = {
> >  	.init = imx51_timer_init,
> >  };
> >  
> > -static const char *imx51_dt_board_compat[] __initdata = {
> > +static const char *imx51_dt_board_compat[] __initconst = {
> >  	"fsl,imx51-babbage",
> >  	"fsl,imx51",
> >  	NULL
> 
>   CC      arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.o
> arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c:105:20: error: imx51_dt_board_compat causes a section type conflict
> make[2]: *** [arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.o] Error 1
> 
> I do not understand why though.
that's because the strings are constant, but the array is not. The fix
is:

-static const char *imx51_dt_board_compat[] __initconst = {
+static const char *const imx51_dt_board_compat[] __initconst = {

or keeping __initdata.

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-30  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-29 21:11 [PATCH 00/17] mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata Uwe Kleine-König
2012-03-29 21:12 ` [PATCH 03/17] ARM: " Uwe Kleine-König
2012-03-29 22:31   ` David Brown
2012-03-30  4:34   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-03-30  6:11   ` Shawn Guo
2012-03-30  9:50     ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2012-03-30 11:25       ` Shawn Guo
2012-03-30 16:11   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-03-30  9:59 ` [PATCH 00/17] " Uwe Kleine-König
2012-03-30 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] " Uwe Kleine-König
2012-03-30 20:04   ` [PATCH v2 02/15] ARM: " Uwe Kleine-König
2012-04-11 11:34     ` Sekhar Nori

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