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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark address_space_operations const
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:13:35 +0200
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:00:39AM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote:
> I understand that making file operations .rodata was
> to prevent binary driver authors overriding individual
> file_operations members at runtime.

No, it's not.  operation vectors should always be const for correctness.
Msarking them const ensures that, aswell as avoiding false cache
sharing, etc.  Nothing about licenses at all.

And example for things this is supposed to prevent is the stuff you did
in the userspace probes after smoking far too much crack.