Hi Russell, Olof, 2015-08-25 6:44 GMT+09:00 Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > OK. I will put 01 and 02 to Russell's patch tracker (after waiting for a bit more comments just in case). I will do the rest later. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada -- 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
