Re: Regression: commit "ide: constify struct ide_port_info" causesbreakage

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:30:20 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > 
> >    We can just convert cariables declared as 'struct hpt_info' to
> > const too -- they are read-only templates.
> 
> Generally "__devinitdata" is better than "const", since it means that
> the data may be thrown away.
> 
> So if you drop one over the other, it's generally the "const" that
> should be dropped ;/
> 

we could do a
__constdevinitdata
that translate to "const" for the "not throw away" cases, and to the
throw-away secontion for the other cases...
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