Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: clang: Disable the 'duplicate-decl-specifier' warning

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:11:55PM +0200 Arnd Bergmann ha dit:
>> I see that container_of() has been modified in linux-next and no longer adds
>> the 'const' keyword, do we actually still need the patch?
>
> There is still (at least) the case of const arrays passed to
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.

Does the 'const' have any effect there? As it's just an alias, it
should at least
not impact the placement of the symbol in the object file, right? Maybe we can
just remove that 'const' too. Do you see any other instances?

       Arnd