Re: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: remove duplicate const qualifier

From: Nicolas Pitre
Date: Wed Apr 27 2016 - 16:03:24 EST


On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Eric Engestrom wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:12:16AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Beware.
> >
> > I added many of those exactly because gcc did not ignore them when
> > compiling with LTO where the lack of a const qualifier to qualify the
> > actual array content, and not only the reference to that content,
> > generated build errors due to section mismatches from the __initconst
> > annotation.
>
> I believe the first `const` does that, without the need for a second.
>
> > So this is a NAK from me unless you may confirm that LTO builds are
> > unaffected by your changes.
>
> I can't confirm it (haven't tried), and don't care enough to do it :]
> I guess I'm just dropping the patch then. Like I said, it can't hurt to
> leave them in.

I just tested LTO with your patch applied and everything appears to be
fine. The extra const are indeed redundant here. So you have an ACK
from me.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>


Nicolas