linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: freescale: gianfar : constify dev_pm

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:49:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com
Cc:     claudiu.manoil@...escale.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: freescale: gianfar : constify dev_pm_ops
 structures.

From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:26:06 +0530

> dev_pm_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with dev_pm_ops provided by <linux/device.h> work with const
> dev_pm_ops. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> 
> File size before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   19057	    392	      0	  19449	   4bf9	drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.o
> 
> File size After adding 'const':
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   19249	    192	      0	  19441	   4bf1	drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>

Applied.