Re: [IDE] Fix build bug

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:34:29AM +0000, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

> On Thursday 25 October 2007 22:41, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > -static const struct ide_port_info generic_chipsets[] __devinitdata = {
> > > +static struct ide_port_info generic_chipsets[] __devinitdata = {
> > >  	/*  0 */ DECLARE_GENERIC_PCI_DEV("Unknown",	0),
> > >  
> > >  	{	/* 1 */
> > 
> > I would prefer to not remove const from generic_chipsets[] so:
> > 
> > [PATCH] drivers/ide/pci/generic: fix build for CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n
> > 
> > It turns out that const and __{dev}initdata cannot be mixed currently
> > and that generic IDE PCI host driver is also affected by the same issue:
> > 
> > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > >   CC      drivers/ide/pci/generic.o
> > > drivers/ide/pci/generic.c:52: error: __setup_str_ide_generic_all_on causes a
> > > +section type conflict
> > 
> > [ Also reported by Martijn Uffing <mp3project@sarijopen.student.utwente.nl>. ]
> > 
> > This patch workarounds the problem in a bit hackish way but without
> > removing const from generic_chipsets[] (it adds const to __setup() so
> > __setup_str_ide_generic_all becomes const).
> 
> You wouldn't believe how much const data is not marked as const because
> we don't have __constinitdata etc. Literally megabytes.

The gain from marking it const is very little and once any non-const
__initdata object is added to a compilation unit all other const declarations
will have to be removed.  Bad tradeoff.

  Ralf
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