linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals

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Message-Id: <200709112354.41774.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:54:41 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ak@...e.de,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, len.brown@...el.com,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, dz@...ian.org, minyard@....org,
	j.w.r.degoede@....nl, lm-sensors@...sensors.org, rlove@...ve.org,
	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, mzxreary@...inter.de,
	stelian@...ies.net, ibm-acpi@....eng.br, ambx1@....rr.com,
	gimli@...k-green.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals

On Saturday 01 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> commit 457b6eb3bf3341d2e143518a0bb99ffbb8d754c4
> Author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> Date:   Sat Sep 1 10:16:45 2007 -0400
> 
>     drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals
>     
>     Three main sets of changes:
>     
>     1) dmi_get_system_info() return value should have been marked const,
>        since callers should not be changing that data.
>     
>     2) const-ify DMI internals, since DMI firmware tables should,
>        whenever possible, be marked const to ensure we never ever write to
>        that data area.
>     
>     3) const-ify DMI API, to enable marking tables const where possible
>        in low-level drivers.
>     
>     And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional
>     optimizations on the part of the compiler.
>     
>     The bulk of the changes are #2 and #3, which are interrelated.  #1 could
>     have been a separate patch, but it was so small compared to the others,
>     it was easier to roll it into this changeset.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>

[ a bit late ]

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
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