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-koe...@pengutronix.de> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwbo...@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mpor...@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <ag...@denx.de> Cc: Kumar Gala <ga...@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: cbe-oss-...@lists.ozlabs.org --- changes since (implicit) v1: - drop wrong changes to several files: - arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/ppc40x_simple.c - arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc5121_generic.c - arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/lite5200.c - arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/media5200.c - arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc5200_simple.c - arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc830x_rdb.c - arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc831x_rdb.c - arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc837x_rdb.c - arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/tqm85xx.c arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_pci.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/qpace_setup.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_pci.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_pci.c index bfb11e0..e2d401a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_pci.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_pci.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ struct mpc52xx_pci { }; /* MPC5200 device tree match tables */ -const struct of_device_id mpc52xx_pci_ids[] __initdata = { +const struct of_device_id mpc52xx_pci_ids[] __initconst = { { .type = "pci", .compatible = "fsl,mpc5200-pci", }, { .type = "pci", .compatible = "mpc5200-pci", }, {} diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/qpace_setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/qpace_setup.c index 7f9b674..6e3409d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/qpace_setup.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/qpace_setup.c @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static void qpace_progress(char *s, unsigned short hex) printk("*** %04x : %s\n", hex, s ? s : ""); } -static const struct of_device_id qpace_bus_ids[] __initdata = { +static const struct of_device_id qpace_bus_ids[] __initconst = { { .type = "soc", }, { .compatible = "soc", }, { .type = "spider", }, diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c index fa3e294..4ab0876 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/setup.c @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static int __devinit cell_setup_phb(struct pci_controller *phb) return 0; } -static const struct of_device_id cell_bus_ids[] __initdata = { +static const struct of_device_id cell_bus_ids[] __initconst = { { .type = "soc", }, { .compatible = "soc", }, { .type = "spider", }, -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev