Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2012 22:29:35 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/17] gpio/samsung: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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2012/3/29 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>:
> As long as there is no other non-const variable marked __initdata in the > same compilation unit it doesn't hurt. If there were one however > compilation would fail with > > error: $variablename causes a section type conflict > > because a section containing const variables is marked read only and so > cannot contain non-const variables. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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