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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atlx: make strings const
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:54:14 -0700
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On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:58:11 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 15:18 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> > Acked-by: Chris Snook <chris.snook@gmail.com>
> > 
> 
> Shouldn't that be done with all of the global
> static char foo[] = "bar"; declarations?

Yes, that what I was looking at when I found some of these.
Those that are __initdata don't matter as much since they
get dropped (although they could be changed to __initconst).