Re: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: remove duplicate const qualifier

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Eric Engestrom wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:12:16AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Beware.
> > 
> > I added many of those exactly because gcc did not ignore them when 
> > compiling with LTO where the lack of a const qualifier to qualify the 
> > actual array content, and not only the reference to that content, 
> > generated build errors due to section mismatches from the __initconst 
> > annotation.
> 
> I believe the first `const` does that, without the need for a second.
> 
> > So this is a NAK from me unless you may confirm that LTO builds are 
> > unaffected by your changes.
> 
> I can't confirm it (haven't tried), and don't care enough to do it :]
> I guess I'm just dropping the patch then. Like I said, it can't hurt to
> leave them in.

I just tested LTO with your patch applied and everything appears to be 
fine.  The extra const are indeed redundant here. So you have an ACK 
from me.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>


Nicolas