linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: android: Fix const keyword style issue in ashmem.c

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Message-ID: <YC+Vt0qJbkCLPZfo@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:40:55 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Amrit Khera <amritkhera98@...il.com>
Cc:     arve@...roid.com, tkjos@...roid.com, maco@...roid.com,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, christian@...uner.io, hridya@...gle.com,
        surenb@...gle.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: Fix const keyword style issue in
 ashmem.c

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 03:43:39PM +0530, Amrit Khera wrote:
> This change fixes a checkpatch warning for "struct file_operations should normally be const".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amrit Khera <amritkhera98@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> index d66a64e42273..7854fd410efa 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ ashmem_vmfile_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
>  
>  static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  {
> -	static struct file_operations vmfile_fops;
> +	static const struct file_operations vmfile_fops;
>  	struct ashmem_area *asma = file->private_data;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  

Always test-build your patches before sending them out, otherwise you
are wasting reviewer's time, right?

:(