On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 05:51:56PM +0000, Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Monday, November 27, 2017 3:28 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
> > On 26/11/17 01:50, Alex Frappier Lachapelle wrote:
> >> +          const struct comedi_lrange *lrange;
> >
> > NAK.  The following lines of source code allocate memory pointed to by 
> > 'lrange' and modify it, so 'const' is not appropriate here.
> 
> Ian,
> 
> Wonder if it's worth putting a comment about this in the code. This has come 
> up a
> couple times.
> 

Making it const generates a compile error.  A compile error is worth a
thousand comments as they say.

regards,
dan carpenter

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