linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: davinci: make the function argument as const

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Message-ID: <0f817e2b-2251-7473-a60b-46ff66c0e77e@ti.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:44:06 +0530
From:   Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
To:     Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>, <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        <khilman@...nel.org>, <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: davinci: make the function argument as const

On Monday 16 October 2017 03:38 PM, Bhumika Goyal wrote:
> Make the function argument of the function davinci_common_init
> as const as it's memory contents are only copied during a
> memcpy call. So, the fields of the structure to which the argument
> soc_info points to never gets modified and therefore the argument can
> be made const.
> Add const to the prototype too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>

The subject line is written too generically. I changed that to

"
ARM: davinci: make argument to davinci_common_init() as const
"

while applying to v4.16/fixes-non-critical

Thanks,
Sekhar