linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] drivers: phy: Constify static phy

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Date:   Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:07:39 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@...il.com>,
        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peter Chen <peter.chen@....com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Yu Chen <chenyu56@...wei.com>,
        Binghui Wang <wangbinghui@...ilicon.com>,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
        Seungwon Jeon <essuuj@...il.com>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] drivers: phy: Constify static phy_ops structs

On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 00:00 +0200, Rikard Falkeborn wrote:
> This series constifies all static phy_ops structs in drivers/phy.
> Typically the only usage is to pass the address of it to devm_phy_create()
> which takes a const pointer. The lone exception is in
> drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-ipq4019-usb.c where the address of the
> structs is assigned to the data-field in of_device_id, which is a const
> void pointer.
> 
> Making the structs const allows the compiler to put them in read-only
> memory.
> 
> The patches are all independent of each other, and have been
> compile-tested only.

Perhaps add phy_ops to scripts/const_structs.checkpatch too
---
 scripts/const_structs.checkpatch | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/const_structs.checkpatch b/scripts/const_structs.checkpatch
index e9df9cc28a85..cd45cb3c2b04 100644
--- a/scripts/const_structs.checkpatch
+++ b/scripts/const_structs.checkpatch
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ nlmsvc_binding
 nvkm_device_chip
 of_device_id
 pci_raw_ops
+phy_ops
 pipe_buf_operations
 platform_hibernation_ops
 platform_suspend_ops