From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com,
cl@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, rjw@sisk.pl, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Constify struct kset_uevent_ops for 2.6.33-rc2
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:16:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B3BED7A.6020507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091230001131.GA19830@suse.de>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:58:11PM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:
>>>> I double checked both the declaration and definitions of the affected
>>>> function/structure and they are consistently const here.
>>>> Can you tell me what patch/tree combination you encountered this
>>>> warning with?
>>> 2.6.33-rc2 with your patch.
>> Here is the updated patch for 2.6.33-rc2 in one piece.
>> Emese
>>
>>
>> From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
>>
>> Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.
>
> Why is this needed? What does it accomplish?
This is my contribution to the ops structure constification effort
that some developers started a few years ago (Arjan, Al Viro, etc.)
and that has been worked on somewhat sporadically ever since. For a
summary of why this is useful please see Arjan's email:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/14/216
--
Emese
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-31 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-14 0:00 [PATCH 0/4] Constify struct kset_uevent_ops for 2.6.32-git-053fe57ac v2 re.emese
2009-12-14 0:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] " re.emese
2009-12-14 0:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] " re.emese
2009-12-14 10:22 ` Steven Whitehouse
2009-12-14 0:00 ` [PATCH 1/1] Constify struct kgdb_io " re.emese
2009-12-14 0:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] Constify struct kset_uevent_ops " re.emese
2009-12-25 11:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-12-26 0:38 ` Emese Revfy
2009-12-28 20:46 ` David Rientjes
2009-12-29 20:50 ` Emese Revfy
2009-12-29 20:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-12-29 7:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-12-29 20:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] Constify struct kset_uevent_ops for 2.6.33-rc2 Emese Revfy
2009-12-30 0:11 ` Greg KH
2009-12-31 0:16 ` Emese Revfy [this message]
2009-12-31 4:40 ` Greg KH
2009-12-31 13:52 ` Emese Revfy
2009-12-14 0:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] Constify struct kset_uevent_ops for 2.6.32-git-053fe57ac v2 re.emese
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