From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:44:42 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: add a test for const with __read_mostly uses
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.2/o2_dc~105^2~105
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c17893c7407fbe988f5901596c3e5e75c0dc0f67;p=pandora-kernel.git

checkpatch: add a test for const with __read_mostly uses

const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly.  They are read-only.

Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts with LTO
linking.

So add a test to try to avoid this issue.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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