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

Linus Torvalds
2007-10-26T16:32:25Z

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 ;/

Linus