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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] constify microcode hypercall argument

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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:55:03 +0200
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On Friday 29 August 2008 14:33:08 Jan Beulich wrote:
> Linux 2.6.27 marks the data pointer in its firmware struct 'const', and
> hence, to avoid a compiler warning, Xen's microcode update interface
> should be properly properly constified too.

What makes you confident, that this reason applies to other operating systems
(Solaris, BSD) , too ?

Christoph

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