Re: [PATCH 02/31] Constify struct address_space_operations for2.6.32 v1

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:
>  struct address_space_operations {
> -	int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
> -	int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *);
> -	void (*sync_page)(struct page *);
> +	int (* const writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
> +	int (* const readpage)(struct file *, struct page *);
> +	void (* const sync_page)(struct page *);

Umm.  What effect does this have?  Aren't functions implicitly constant?
What changes as a result of this patch?

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