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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.17-rc1] Reinstate const in next_thread()
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Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> Before commit 47e65328a7b1cdfc4e3102e50d60faf94ebba7d3, next_thread()
> took a const task_t.  Reinstate the const qualifier, getting the next
> thread never changes the current thread.
> 

Can do, but why?  Does code generation improve?