linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] tty: Mark goldfish_tty_line

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Message-ID: <20180721074611.GC6484@kroah.com>
Date:   Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:46:11 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     rkir@...gle.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tkjos@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tty: Mark goldfish_tty_line_count as const

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:14:55PM -0700, rkir@...gle.com wrote:
> From: Roman Kiryanov <rkir@...gle.com>
> 
> The driver never mutates this variable - no benefits of
> keeping it mutable.

Then why not just make it a #define?  No need to waste the memory of a
variable, right?

thanks,

greg k-h