linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] r8152: constify ethtool

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Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2016 20:46:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     Julia.Lawall@...6.fr
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] r8152: constify ethtool_ops structures

From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Date: Thu,  1 Sep 2016 00:21:22 +0200

> Check for ethtool_ops structures that are only stored in the ethtool_ops
> field of a net_device structure or passed as the second argument to
> netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops.  These contexts are declared const, so
> ethtool_ops structures that have these properties can be declared as const
> also.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
 ...
> Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

Applied.