This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: remove duplicate 'const' annotations' to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm-remove-duplicate-const-annotations.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0527873b29b077fc8e656acd63e1866b429fef55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 13:50:16 +0200 Subject: ARM: remove duplicate 'const' annotations' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> commit 0527873b29b077fc8e656acd63e1866b429fef55 upstream. gcc-7 warns about some declarations that are more 'const' than necessary: arch/arm/mach-at91/pm.c:338:34: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier] static const struct of_device_id const ramc_ids[] __initconst = { arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c:36:34: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier] static const struct of_device_id const bcm_kona_smc_ids[] __initconst = { arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c:207:34: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier] static const struct of_device_id const timer_of_match[] __initconst = { arch/arm/mach-omap2/prm_common.c:714:34: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier] static const struct of_device_id const omap_prcm_dt_match_table[] __initconst = { arch/arm/mach-omap2/vc.c:562:35: error: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Werror=duplicate-decl-specifier] static const struct i2c_init_data const omap4_i2c_timing_data[] __initconst = { The ones in arch/arm were apparently all introduced accidentally by one commit that correctly marked a lot of variables as __initconst. Fixes: 19c233b79d1a ("ARM: appropriate __init annotation for const data") Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/mach-at91/pm.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/core.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/prm_common.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/vc.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c | 2 +- 6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm/mach-at91/pm.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/pm.c @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static void at91sam9_sdram_standby(void) at91_ramc_write(1, AT91_SDRAMC_LPR, saved_lpr1); } -static const struct of_device_id const ramc_ids[] __initconst = { +static const struct of_device_id ramc_ids[] __initconst = { { .compatible = "atmel,at91rm9200-sdramc", .data = at91rm9200_standby }, { .compatible = "atmel,at91sam9260-sdramc", .data = at91sam9_sdram_standby }, { .compatible = "atmel,at91sam9g45-ddramc", .data = at91_ddr_standby }, --- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct bcm_kona_smc_data { unsigned result; }; -static const struct of_device_id const bcm_kona_smc_ids[] __initconst = { +static const struct of_device_id bcm_kona_smc_ids[] __initconst = { {.compatible = "brcm,kona-smc"}, {.compatible = "bcm,kona-smc"}, /* deprecated name */ {}, --- a/arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/core.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/core.c @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static struct usb_ohci_pdata cns3xxx_usb .power_off = csn3xxx_usb_power_off, }; -static const struct of_dev_auxdata const cns3xxx_auxdata[] __initconst = { +static const struct of_dev_auxdata cns3xxx_auxdata[] __initconst = { { "intel,usb-ehci", CNS3XXX_USB_BASE, "ehci-platform", &cns3xxx_usb_ehci_pdata }, { "intel,usb-ohci", CNS3XXX_USB_OHCI_BASE, "ohci-platform", &cns3xxx_usb_ohci_pdata }, { "cavium,cns3420-ahci", CNS3XXX_SATA2_BASE, "ahci", NULL }, --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/prm_common.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/prm_common.c @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static struct omap_prcm_init_data scrm_d }; #endif -static const struct of_device_id const omap_prcm_dt_match_table[] __initconst = { +static const struct of_device_id omap_prcm_dt_match_table[] __initconst = { #ifdef CONFIG_SOC_AM33XX { .compatible = "ti,am3-prcm", .data = &am3_prm_data }, #endif --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/vc.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/vc.c @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ struct i2c_init_data { u8 hsscll_12; }; -static const struct i2c_init_data const omap4_i2c_timing_data[] __initconst = { +static const struct i2c_init_data omap4_i2c_timing_data[] __initconst = { { .load = 50, .loadbits = 0x3, --- a/arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static void __init spear_clockevent_init setup_irq(irq, &spear_timer_irq); } -static const struct of_device_id const timer_of_match[] __initconst = { +static const struct of_device_id timer_of_match[] __initconst = { { .compatible = "st,spear-timer", }, { }, }; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/arm-remove-duplicate-const-annotations.patch queue-4.9/ttpci-address-stringop-overflow-warning.patch queue-4.9/ib-qib-fix-false-postive-maybe-uninitialized-warning.patch queue-4.9/asoc-rt5514-fix-gcc-7-warning.patch queue-4.9/mips-lantiq-fix-another-request_mem_region-return-code-check.patch queue-4.9/alsa-au88x0-avoid-theoretical-uninitialized-access.patch queue-4.9/asoc-rt5659-drop-double-const.patch