Re: [PATCH 00/17] mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Fri Mar 30 2012 - 07:37:46 EST


Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> After a question by Shawn Guo I noticed that my command to do the changes
> was to lax and changed things that must not be changed (at least not
> with further care). Affected are lines like:
>
> static const char *at91_dt_board_compat[] __initconst = {
>
> While at91_dt_board_compat[0] is const, at91_dt_board_compat is not.

Though it looks like at91_dt_board_compat should really be const (it is
assigned to a const pointer, likewise for all other uses of struct
machine_desc.dt_compat).

Andreas.

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