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From: Frank Seidel <fseidel@suse.de>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	jirislaby@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nozomi: constify driver
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:59:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802010859.14583.fseidel@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080201072815.GA5345@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Friday 01 February 2008 08:28, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> __devinitdata is for non-const data.
> __devinitconst is for const data.
>
> You cannot mix const and non-const data in the same section,
> if you do so gcc will complain.
> It may build for you if all uses of __devinitdata in the
> same source file is either const or non-const but when you
> mix it then it breaks.
> 
> So please use the correct annotation.

Ok, i see .. thanks for this explanation.
I'll repost with this fixed

BTW in this case those drivers also need to be fixed in current
git tree, should they?
drivers/edac/amd76x_edac.c
drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c
drivers/edac/e7xxx_edac.c
drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c
drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c
drivers/edac/i82443bxgx_edac.c
drivers/edac/i82860_edac.c
drivers/edac/i82875p_edac.c
drivers/edac/i82975x_edac.c
drivers/edac/r82600_edac.c
drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c
drivers/mmc/host/ricoh_mmc.c
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
drivers/net/natsemi.c
drivers/net/via-velocity.c
drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c

> We do small incremental steps whenever we can. The challenge is
> often to split up patches and not to combine them.
> 
> Where we combine two patches this is when the second patch fix
> a bug in the first patch.

To me it felt like those changes are so trivial and kind of
belong together so that i thought it would be ok here. But
i'll repost it as two patches in a few moments.

Thanks,
Frank

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31 21:10 [PATCH] nozomi: constify driver Frank Seidel
2008-01-31 21:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-01  6:25   ` Frank Seidel
2008-02-01  7:28     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01  7:59       ` Frank Seidel [this message]
2008-02-01  8:09         ` [PATCH v2 0/3] nozomi: driver updates to current git tree Frank Seidel
2008-02-01  8:13           ` [PATCH v2 1/3] nozomi: minor cleanups (already in gregkh-2.6) Frank Seidel
2008-02-01  8:13           ` [PATCH v2 2/3] nozomi: constify driver Frank Seidel
2008-02-01  8:14           ` [PATCH v2 3/3] nozomi: finish constification Frank Seidel

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