Re: const from include/asm-i386/byteorder.h

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

William Lee Irwin III writes:
>> Someone needs to doublecheck whether this actually works. Last I heard,

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:36:18PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> I don't quite understand. __attribute_const is defined as
> #define __attribute_const __attribute__ ((__const__))
> so, after preprocessing prototypes of get_current() and
> current_thread_info() will be the same as before patch, modulo spacing.

William Lee Irwin III writes:
>> it did not, but that could have changed since. It vaguely appears some
>> assumption about it working was made recently since __const__ was there.

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:36:18PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> I am currently running ./fsstress -p 111 on patched kernel on 2*XEON
> 2.20GHz with hyper threading.

Sounds good. If you could doublecheck the assembly to make sure it's
doing the right thing, that would be good, too.

Thanks.

-- wli