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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 02:28:51 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a test for const with __read_mostly uses
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 05:14:49PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly.  They are read-only.
> 
> Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts
> with LTO linking.
> 
> So add a test to try to avoid this issue.

Thanks Joe. Looks good thanks. I suspect excluding * 
will miss quite a few cases, but there's no way around it.

-Andi