From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: nick <yocto6@gmail.com>, jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, himangi774@gmail.com,
julia.lawall@lip6.fr, mgorman@suse.de,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FIX MES in init.c
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:48:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5421DC9F.2080504@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54207769.2020105@gmail.com>
Hi Nick,
On 09/22/2014 09:24 PM, nick wrote:
> Greetings James and Other Maintainers of the Parisc Architecture,
> I am wondering about two fix mes in init.c and how to fix them
> for being const declared into actual variables.
> ...
> /* FIXME: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler
> into not treating it as DP-relative data. */
> extern void * const linux_gateway_page;
The FIXME: is misleading. It should maybe better read "HINT:" or something like that.
Trivially it's basically just casting the symbol so that the compiler
will produce the correct code later on.
There is nothing you could try to "fix".
Helge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 19:24 FIX MES in init.c nick
2014-09-23 20:48 ` Helge Deller [this message]
2014-09-23 20:59 ` John David Anglin
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