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

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ingo Molnar 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.

The current const usage is way too much, for no good reason either. I 
don't mind adding a few const back, but declaring every simple argument 
const is just insane.

bye, Roman
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