linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] soundwire: bus: Make sdw_nwrite() data pointer argument const

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Date:   Sun, 20 Jun 2021 16:47:22 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
To:     Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.cirrus.com>
Cc:     yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com,
        pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com, sanyog.r.kale@...el.com,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        patches@...nsource.cirrus.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] soundwire: bus: Make sdw_nwrite() data pointer
 argument const

On 16-06-21, 15:59, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> Idiomatically, write functions should take const pointers to the
> data buffer, as they don't change the data. They are also likely
> to be called from functions that receive a const data pointer.
> 
> Internally the pointer is passed to function/structs shared with
> the read functions, requiring a cast, but this is an implementation
> detail that should be hidden by the public API.

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod