2016-08-25 16:28 GMT+09:00 Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 2016년 08월 25일 09:11, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> On 08/24, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
>>> On 2016년 08월 24일 13:43, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>>> On 08/23, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>>>>> So the saving is rather insignificant but the patch doesn't make
>>>>> things worse and I'd say it might be worth applying.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sounds good. This sort of information should be in the commit
>>>> text though. Talking about const doesn't make any sense to me.
>>>
>>> Do you mean that 'const' is initconst secion?
>>
>> No. Marking it as initconst in the patch is correct.
>
> OK.
>
>>
>>> If possible, could you explain the anything
>>> why you don't make sense about 'const'?
>>>
>>
>> I'm just saying that the reasoning to move it from the text
>> section to the data section shouldn't be because of const. There
>> should be better reasons to do this, like size benefits.
>>
>
> As I already said, the samsung_cmu_register_on() requires
> the 'const' type argument for 'struct samsung_cmu_info'.
If a function takes a const pointer as an argument, then it's
perfectly valid to give a non-const pointer. Casting from non-cost
into const is valid, other way around not.
>
> So, I defined the instance on the out of the exynos5260_clk_aud_init() as following:
> static const struct samsung_cmu_info aud_cmu __initconst = {
>
> How can i add the 'const' keyword and '__initsecion' to the
> "struct samsung_cmu_info aud_cmu" in the "static void __init
> exynos5260_clk_aud_init(struct device_node *np)"?
Stephen meant that there must be some benefit from a change to make it
worth being included into the kernel.
Best regards,
Tomasz
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