Re: [PATCH 10/12] hrtimer: remove useless const

[Ingo Molnar]

* Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A const for arguments which are passed by value is completely ignored 
> by gcc. It has only an effect on local variables and even here a 
> recent gcc doesn't need it either to produce better code. I left a few 
> const which help gcc-3.x to produce slightly smaller code.

still nack... Using const is _not a bug_, and in fact there are some 
good reasons to make use of it - so it should be left up to the authors 
of the code how much they make use of const. This patch also creates 
quite some churn in the -hrt queue, for no good reason.

	Ingo
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