On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:58:20PM +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav wrote: > Is the above a genuine kernel bug, or i am missing something out here. Pls help. > When you declare something as const then the compiler assumes it really is const and uses a literal instead of reading from memory. I'm surprised the compiler doesn't print a warning message. It has to do with compilers, nothing to do with kernels. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel