linux-kernel - constification and cocci / kernel build test robot ?

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Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:11:38 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: constification and cocci / kernel build  test robot ?

On Sat, 2016-08-27 at 20:59 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>  Make sure (of/i2c/platform)_device_id tables are NULL terminated
> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/of_table.cocci

Along the same lines, I submitted a manually generated
patch to add const to some of these structs.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/26/494

Could cocci and/or the kbuild test robot check for structs
that could or should be const?


> Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks!
[]
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel_bxt_pmic_thermal.c
> @@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ static struct platform_device_id pmic_th
>                 .name = "bxt_wcove_thermal",
>                 .driver_data = (kernel_ulong_t)&bxtwc_thermal_data,
>         },
> +       {},
>  };
> 
>  static struct platform_driver pmic_thermal_driver = {