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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:11:13 +0000
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, srostedt@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:08:31PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:06:02 -0500
> > > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > +static struct file_operations rb_simple_fops = {
> > > 
> > > should be const...
> > > 
> > > Probably it isn't worth fixing.  Someone(tm) should do period sweeps -
> > > 10% of our file_operationses aren't const.
> > 
> > Thanks, I never really thought about it.
> > 
> > I'll add to my todo list to send out a patch that cleans all of this 
> > up. I think I'm guilty at doing this in more than one place.
> 
> Perhaps checkpatch.pl could remind us about it? a new file_operations 
> struct definition should be const in 99.9% of the cases.

Added to my TODO list.

-apw
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