Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ashmem: Declared file operation with 'const' keyword

[Hriday Hegde]

On 19-05-2021 15:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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>
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 03:00:08PM +0530, Hriday Hegde wrote:
>> I am not really sure how to do that and how to reflect it in the patch i followed what was taught in the Beginners course and it does not mention building. I know i need to test it out but is running 'patch -p1 < x.patch what i need to do?
> That does not build the code you changed, right?
>
> I'm sure whatever course you took, it did reference the fact that you
> need to ensure that your change actually works properly by the very
> least being able to be compiled correctly.  Please go over those
> instructions again.
>
> good luck!
>
> greg k-h

I am using the A Beginner's Guide to Linux Kernel Development (LFD103) by the linux foundation for this but i cant find any commands to as to build and test , the only way i tried compiling is with a custom Makefile and it didn't work, i've got a few errors so the const keyword might not work here since the variable is being written to.