From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934502Ab2C3UFm (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:05:42 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:53443 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934280Ab2C3UFd (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:05:33 -0400 From: =?UTF-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de, Samuel Ortiz Subject: [PATCH v2 06/15] mfd: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:04:56 +0200 Message-Id: <1333137905-13809-6-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-Reply-To: <20120330200358.GV15647@pengutronix.de> References: <20120330200358.GV15647@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:21e:67ff:fe11:9c5c X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Cc: Samuel Ortiz --- no changes since (implicit) v1 drivers/mfd/ab5500-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/ab5500-core.c b/drivers/mfd/ab5500-core.c index 54d0fe4..3765c76 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/ab5500-core.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/ab5500-core.c @@ -1291,7 +1291,7 @@ struct ab_family_id { char *name; }; -static const struct ab_family_id ids[] __initdata = { +static const struct ab_family_id ids[] __initconst = { /* AB5500 */ { .id = AB5500_1_0, -- 1.7.9.5