Re: [PATCH 0/1] Constify struct address_space_operations for2.6.32-git-053fe57ac v2

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:00:49AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:26:56 +0100

> I for one am not opposed to using const where we could be using const.
> It's a fundamental language feature, that helps the compiler and
> developer. Yes there is sparse, and no, almost nobody uses that.
 
And as just about any language feature it can be used to make the thing
less readable.

Note that marking a pointer to method table as pointer to const is just fine;
nobody AFAICS has any problems with that.  It's "let's make pointers to
methods themselves const" that gets flamed.
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