linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tee: constify tee_driver_ops and tee

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Date:   Fri, 4 Aug 2017 10:48:45 +0200
From:   Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>
To:     Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tee: constify tee_driver_ops and tee_desc structures

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr> wrote:
> tee_driver_ops structures are only stored in the ops field of tee_desc
> structures, which is const, and in turn tee_desc structures are only passed
> as the first argument of tee_device_alloc, and this argument is const as
> well.  Thus the two kinds of structures can be const.
>
> Done with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

This has already been proposed by Bhumika Goyal in a more or less
identical patch. I've already picked up Bhumikas patch and will send
it upstream via arm-soc.

Thanks,
Jens