Re: [PATCH] moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures

[Daniel Drake]

Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into
> read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global
> generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for
> struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes compile
> failures due to 'section type conflict' in those rare cases where
> param_set/get are local functions.
>
> This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8964

In case you weren't aware already, people seem to think this is actually 
a GCC bug (with a patch available):

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31490

Daniel

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