Re: Regression: commit "ide: constify struct ide_port_info" causesbreakage

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> 
>    We can just convert cariables declared as 'struct hpt_info' to const too -- 
> they are read-only templates.

Generally "__devinitdata" is better than "const", since it means that the 
data may be thrown away.

So if you drop one over the other, it's generally the "const" that should 
be dropped ;/

		Linus
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