[PATCH 03/17] ARM: mark const init data with __initconst instead of __initdata

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Fri Mar 30 02:11:36 EDT 2012


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:12:20PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
...
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c
> index 5cca573..7e00748 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static struct sys_timer imx51_timer = {
>  	.init = imx51_timer_init,
>  };
>  
> -static const char *imx51_dt_board_compat[] __initdata = {
> +static const char *imx51_dt_board_compat[] __initconst = {
>  	"fsl,imx51-babbage",
>  	"fsl,imx51",
>  	NULL

  CC      arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.o
arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.c:105:20: error: imx51_dt_board_compat causes a section type conflict
make[2]: *** [arch/arm/mach-imx/imx51-dt.o] Error 1

I do not understand why though.

-- 
Regards,
Shawn



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