On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 02:28 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 05:14:49PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly. They are read-only.
> >
> > Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts
> > with LTO linking.
> >
> > So add a test to try to avoid this issue.
>
> I suspect excluding *
> will miss quite a few cases, but there's no way around it.
That excludes only "const *" not "const foo * const"
so I believe it shouldn't exclude anything that's not
pointer to const.
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