linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: ibmvfc: constify dev_pm

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Date:   Sat, 01 Jul 2017 17:05:40 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Cc:     tyreld@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au, jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: ibmvfc: constify dev_pm_ops structures.


Arvind,

> 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.

Applied to 4.13/scsi-queue. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering