Re: const vs __{dev}initdata

[Jeff Garzik]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that const cannot be (officialy) mixed with __{dev}initdata,
>
> include/linux/init.h:
> ...
>  *
>  * Also note, that this data cannot be "const".
>  */
> ...
>
> [ BTW Greg: this doesn't seem to be mentioned in LDD3. ]
>
> Any reason for this limitation (other than not having .init.rodata section
> and __const__{dev}initdata tag)?  There are places where we really would like
> to have both, i.e. struct ide_port_info in drivers/ide.

Thank you for asking this question...  we really do need a solution for 
this.

As you point out, there are many valid cases for both const and initdata.

	Jeff



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