linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] of: Make const the device node pointers in of_clk_get and of_node

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Message-ID: <20141109202820.026252bf@armhf>
Date:	Sun, 9 Nov 2014 20:28:20 +0100
From:	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] of: Make const the device node pointers in
 of_clk_get and of_node_put

On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 18:50:19 +0000
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> What this then means is that it fundamentally undermines the idea of
> storing the pointer to a device_node as a const pointer, as the device
> node must always be modified when you're done with it (because it's a
> ref-counted structure.)  So, having it const in your code is a bug.
> 
> What this also means is that every other place that you've added const
> below is also very dubious.

Thanks for the explanation.

The correct patch will be simpler: in the ASoC structures, I found only
three places where the device_node pointer is const.

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