linux-kernel - Re: hwmon: ftsteutates: constify i2c_device

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Message-ID: <20170830004529.GA15111@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:45:29 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Cc:     jdelvare@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hwmon: ftsteutates: constify i2c_device_id

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:56:34AM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> i2c_device_id are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with i2c_device_id provided by <linux/i2c.h> work with
> const i2c_device_id. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>

Appled to hwmon-next.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/ftsteutates.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ftsteutates.c b/drivers/hwmon/ftsteutates.c
> index 0f0277e..317e45f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/ftsteutates.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ftsteutates.c
> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
>  
>  static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x73, I2C_CLIENT_END };
>  
> -static struct i2c_device_id fts_id[] = {
> +static const struct i2c_device_id fts_id[] = {
>  	{ "ftsteutates", 0 },
>  	{ }
>  };