From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756862AbaIWUsp (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:48:45 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:58926 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756188AbaIWUso (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:48:44 -0400 Message-ID: <5421DC9F.2080504@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:48:31 +0200 From: Helge Deller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nick , 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 References: <54207769.2020105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54207769.2020105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:l+ZLCrs8DcuvxUhyf5+6J5tNUNbDb5UgINHDzfmKFhUpZF9v85x sTdtFlTTvL3uDCvvvRHBJgoRjk2GZyVfVl0PYiSp8VLHg/2RH8m7NvsFpAtWGM4mpQZI/ZO 986IJzVqjEu+QQMfnDyHjud6kCxw+hECs3Wbev2un6PhSlPLAG0qKYpnwhvxlzvf2HWuW9B 5sz37i6IFT0/NKCUf+wEQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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