From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756951AbYAVWPb (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:15:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752040AbYAVWPU (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:15:20 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:39670 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750906AbYAVWPT (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:15:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:15:47 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jan Beulich Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, tony.luck@intel.com, paulus@samba.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] constify struct attribute_group uses (against -mm) Message-ID: <20080122221547.GA32588@kroah.com> References: <4795FE39.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4795FE39.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:31:21PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > .. as all consumers of it don't require it to be modifiable. > > Unfortunately, due to the two-level constifications, this required > touching quite many files, not all of which I am able to test - please > bare with eventual mistakes or oversights. > > The patch doesn't change all instances where 'const' could have been > added as a result of the base structure changes, only where either the > change has a real effect (the module loader doesn't enforce read-only > section attributes at present, so only built-in files matter) or where > compiler warnings would result otherwise. Which -mm is this against? Seems to not apply here :( thanks, greg k-h