Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a test for const with __read_mostly uses

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Apr 08 2015 - 20:28:57 EST


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.

Thanks Joe. Looks good thanks. I suspect excluding *
will miss quite a few cases, but there's no way around it.

-Andi
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