The patch titled Subject: lib/test-kstrtox.c: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kstrtox-mark-const-init-data-with-__initconst-instead-of-__initdata.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/test-kstrtox.c: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata As long as there is no other non-const variable marked __initdata in the same compilation unit it doesn't hurt. If there were one however compilation would fail with error: $variablename causes a section type conflict because a section containing const variables is marked read only and so cannot contain non-const variables. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/test-kstrtox.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/test-kstrtox.c~kstrtox-mark-const-init-data-with-__initconst-instead-of-__initdata lib/test-kstrtox.c --- a/lib/test-kstrtox.c~kstrtox-mark-const-init-data-with-__initconst-instead-of-__initdata +++ a/lib/test-kstrtox.c @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ struct test_fail { }; #define DEFINE_TEST_FAIL(test) \ - const struct test_fail test[] __initdata + const struct test_fail test[] __initconst #define DECLARE_TEST_OK(type, test_type) \ test_type { \ @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ struct test_fail { } #define DEFINE_TEST_OK(type, test) \ - const type test[] __initdata + const type test[] __initconst #define TEST_FAIL(fn, type, fmt, test) \ { \ _ Subject: Subject: lib/test-kstrtox.c: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata Patches currently in -mm which might be from u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch hamradio-scc-orphan-driver-in-maintainers.patch kstrtox-mark-const-init-data-with-__initconst-instead-of-__initdata.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html