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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:04:15 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/15] ARM: mark const init data with __initconst instead
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Hi Uwe,

On 3/31/2012 1:34 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> As long as there is no other non-const variable marked __initdata in the
> same compilation unit it doesn't hurt. If there were one however
> compilation would fail with
> 
> 	error: $variablename causes a section type conflict
> 
> because a section containing const variables is marked read only and so
> cannot contain non-const variables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

For the DaVinci parts,

Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>

Thanks,
Sekhar