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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: cai@lca.pw
Cc: morbo@google.com, ndesaulniers@google.com, jyknight@google.com,
	sathya.perla@broadcom.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com,
	sriharsha.basavapatna@broadcom.com, somnath.kotur@broadcom.com,
	arnd@arndb.de, dhowells@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, natechancellor@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: fix adapter->big_page_size miscaculation
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:29:28 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190718.162928.124906203979938369.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75B428FC-734C-4B15-B1A7-A3FC5F9F2FE5@lca.pw>

From: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:26:47 -0400

> 
> 
>> On Jul 18, 2019, at 5:21 PM, Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> wrote:
>> 
>> [My previous response was marked as spam...]
>> 
>> Top-of-tree clang says that it's const:
>> 
>> $ gcc a.c -O2 && ./a.out
>> a is a const.
>> 
>> $ clang a.c -O2 && ./a.out
>> a is a const.
> 
> 
> I used clang-7.0.1. So, this is getting worse where both GCC and clang will start to suffer the
> same problem.

Then rewrite the module parameter macros such that the non-constness
is evident to all compilers regardless of version.

That is the place to fix this, otherwise we will just be adding hacks
all over the place rather than in just one spot.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-18 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-12 19:23 [PATCH] be2net: fix adapter->big_page_size miscaculation Qian Cai
2019-07-12 22:46 ` David Miller
2019-07-13  0:27   ` Qian Cai
2019-07-13  0:50     ` David Miller
2019-07-18 21:01       ` Qian Cai
2019-07-18 21:10         ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-07-18 21:21           ` Bill Wendling
2019-07-18 23:26             ` Qian Cai
2019-07-18 23:29               ` David Miller [this message]
2019-07-19 21:47                 ` Qian Cai
2019-07-22 21:13                   ` Qian Cai
2019-07-22 22:58                     ` James Y Knight
2019-07-23  3:08                       ` Qian Cai
     [not found]           ` <CAGG=3QWkgm+YhC=TWEWwt585Lbm8ZPG-uFre-kBRv+roPzZFbA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-07-18 21:22             ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-07-18 21:28               ` Bill Wendling
2019-07-19 10:32 ` kbuild test robot

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