Re: Regression: commit "ide: constify struct ide_port_info" causes breakage

Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-26T17:09:56Z

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:30:20 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> >
> > We can just convert cariables declared as 'struct hpt_info' to
> > const too -- they are read-only templates.
>
> Generally "__devinitdata" is better than "const", since it means that
> the data may be thrown away.
>
> So if you drop one over the other, it's generally the "const" that
> should be dropped ;/
>

we could do a
__constdevinitdata
that translate to "const" for the "not throw away" cases, and to the
throw-away secontion for the other cases...