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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [XFRM]: constify 'struct xfrm_type'
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:23:53 +0100
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Joe Perches a =E9crit :
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 12:26 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> -	struct xfrm_type *type;
>> +	const struct xfrm_type *type;
>=20
> Perhaps const foo * const bar; for most or all of these
> conversions?
>=20

Hum...

Having const data is nice because moving them from .data to .rodata,
but what would be practical gains to use a const pointer ???