Re: Checkpatch bad Warning (Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kgdb: add kgdb_arch_set/remove_breakpoint())

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 09:33 +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> On the below patch, checkpatch reports
> 
> WARNING: struct kgdb_arch should normally be const
> #127: FILE: arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c:480:
> +struct kgdb_arch arch_kgdb_ops;
> 
> But when I add 'const', I get compilation failure

So don't add const.

checkpatch is stupid.  You are not.

_Always_ take checkpatch bleats with very
large grains of salt.

Perhaps send a patch to remove kgbd_arch
from scripts/const_structs.checkpatch as
it seems not ever to be const.