Re: Linux 2.4.15-pre4 - merge with Alan

[Keith Owens]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:03:41 -0800 (PST), 
"David S. Miller" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>   From: Neil Brown <[e-mail]>
>   Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:54:00 +1100 (EST)
>
>   uhci.c:2986: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
>
>The correct fix for this one is below and already sent
>to Linus:
>
>diff -u --recursive --new-file --exclude=CVS --exclude=.cvsignore vanilla/linux/include/linux/module.h linux/include/linux/module.h
>--- vanilla/linux/include/linux/module.h	Mon Nov 12 15:13:12 2001
>+++ linux/include/linux/module.h	Mon Nov 12 17:11:04 2001
>@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
>  * const, other exit data may be writable.
>  */
> #define MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE(gtype,name) \
>-static struct gtype##_id * __module_##gtype##_table \
>+static const struct gtype##_id * __module_##gtype##_table \
>   __attribute__ ((unused, __section__(".data.exit"))) = name
> 
> #ifndef __GENKSYMS__

That breaks objects which have other __section__(".data.exit") info
which is not marked const.  I put a comment just above that change...