Re: [PATCH 0/1] Constify struct address_space_operations for 2.6.32-git-053fe57ac v2

[Paul Mundt]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:33:27AM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:59:08AM +0100, re.emese@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> The following patch series attempts to constify several structures
> >> that hold function pointers. This is only the initial batch, there
> >> are about over 150 candidate structures, some of which can be
> >> constified as well, I plan to submit them in the future.
> > 
> > What a complete waste of time.  Until you respond to Al's:
> 
> I did: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/5/140
> 
> For even more discussion see: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/6/111
> 
Since you seem to have both the interest and abundance of spare time
for working on this, have you considered just doing this in sparse? Al
mentioned it here:

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/8/511

which you don't seem to have replied to.

Until such a consensus is reached one way or the other, please refrain
from sending hundreds of patches -- one or two are sufficient for showing
what you want to do until folks are on board with it, as is the typical
nature of mechanical changes.
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