On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 02:12:06PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: >> Easiest of all would probably be to get the sub-arch patches into one >> release, then switch the prototypes and function definitions in the >> next. If you switch prototypes first you'll get a bunch of warnings, >> right? > > Wrong way around. :) > > If you change the sub-arches to declare the smp operations as const, > and try and pass them into a function which doesn't take a const-pointer, > you'll get a warning. The core bits need to go in first before the > sub-arch patches. Ah yes, my bad. > I think the series has limited value - it allows us to (a) check that a > small quantity of code doesn't write to these things, and (b) allows us > to move the SMP operations structure from __initdata to __initconstdata. > It's still going to end up in the init region which is read/write in any > case, and still gets thrown away. > > Given where we are, I don't think we need to rush this in during the > last week before the merge window opens, even though it's trivial. Agreed. So if you pick it up for 4.4, we'll get the rest for 4.5. -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
