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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Make test data really const
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:28:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150420152845.e10be7a50a5da922510e97e4@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429212729-4059-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org>

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:32:09 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> lib/test-hexdump.c: In function ___test_hexdump___:
> lib/test-hexdump.c:74: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
> 
> Make all test data "const char * const" and "__initconst", and the
> "result" variable "const char * const" to fix this.

Linus has already fixed the warning with 17974c054db303.

I think what remains of your patch makes sense, but we don't actually
have a changelog which explains why we're doing it.

Please cook up a fresh patch when convenient?

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-16 19:32 [PATCH] hexdump: Make test data really const Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-04-20 22:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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