On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:36:01 +0100
Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:30:08PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > The patch titled
> > typhoon section fix
> > has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
> > typhoon-section-fix.patch
> >
> > This patch was dropped because I just remembered __devexitconst :(
>
> But powerpc is subtle and I foresee that we have to kill __devinitconst
> and friends soonish.
> The problem is that despite data being const the compiler does not
> always mark the section const.
> So we will see a lot of the errors you see for powerpc now
> that we unconditionally specify a section.
>
> Previously this inconsistentcy were hidden by the fact that powerpc tagets
> seldom were build without CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y.
>
> So the patches are correct.
> Tomorrow I hope to do a patch that kill __devinitconst :-(
>
hrm, OK.
> >
> > -static const char version[] __devinitdata =
> > +static char version[] __devinitdata =
> > "typhoon.c: version " DRV_MODULE_VERSION " (" DRV_MODULE_RELDATE ")\n";
> >
but chances are that in a year's time someone will come along and helpfully
make this const again. Maybe we should annotate such sites with
#define cant_make_me_const_ask_sam_why /**/
to avoid this..
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