linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm: vmwgfx: constify vmw_fence

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Message-ID: <20170830083024.fokqszud2euwg476@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:30:24 +0200
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
Cc:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>, airlied@...ux.ie,
        syeh@...are.com, linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: vmwgfx: constify vmw_fence_ops

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 08:21:46AM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> On 08/30/2017 07:47 AM, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> > vmw_fence_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. Functions
> > "dma_fence_init" working with const vmw_fence_ops provided
> > by <linux/dma-fence.h>. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c
> > index b8bc5bc..abc5f03 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c
> > @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static long vmw_fence_wait(struct dma_fence *f, bool intr, signed long timeout)
> >   	return ret;
> >   }
> > -static struct dma_fence_ops vmw_fence_ops = {
> > +static const struct dma_fence_ops vmw_fence_ops = {
> >   	.get_driver_name = vmw_fence_get_driver_name,
> >   	.get_timeline_name = vmw_fence_get_timeline_name,
> >   	.enable_signaling = vmw_fence_enable_signaling,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>

Does this mean you'll merge it, or does this mean you'll expect someone
else to merge this?

I'm always confused when maintainers reply with an r-b/ack for a patch
only touching their driver, and no further information at all.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch