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Message-ID: <1d0dff6f-97c7-c800-2a6b-551613cae733@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:55:40 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] driver core: make more things const!

Hi,

On 1/11/23 12:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Here's an updated version of this original series:
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221123122523.1332370-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org/
> that has the goal of making more functions in the driver core take const
> pointers as they do not actually modify anything.  This work is an
> outgrowth of some conversations I had with the Linux Rust developers
> talking about the mutability of many of the driver model pointers.
> 
> A small subset of the original submission is now in 6.2-rc1 and this
> series is an outgrown of the original submission in that many things are
> now changed and a bit more explicit than before.
> 
> I can take all of these through the driver-core git tree as they depend
> on each other.  0-day has been passing on this series for quite a while,
> so all should be good unless some subsystem trees have added new busses
> without me noticing.
> 
> Bonus for all of this work, the overall code size of the kernel actually
> decreased a tiny bit:
>  126 files changed, 283 insertions(+), 309 deletions(-)
> while adding a lot more type-safeness to the system.

Other then a small remark on "[PATCH v2 03/16] platform/surface: aggregator:
move to_ssam_device() to use container_of_const()" the platform/surface
and platform/x86/wmi.c changes look good to me:

Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>

Regards,

Hans




> 
> Changes from v1:
>   - rebased on 6.2-rc1 and dropped accepted patches already in there.
>   - container_of_const() is now in 6.2-rc1 so use that in many
>     individual subsystems to make the follow-on changes in the driver
>     core more obvious.
>   - collected some Reviewed-by
>   - of_device_uevent_modalias was being "abused" by many different
>     subsystems in using it instead of a local bus function which played
>     havoc when enabling stricter type-checking.  Move that out into a
>     new function for the busses that were doing this to make it more
>     obvious what they need here.
> 
> Greg Kroah-Hartman (16):
>   of: device: make of_device_uevent_modalias() take a const device *
>   i3c: move dev_to_i3cdev() to use container_of_const()
>   platform/surface: aggregator: move to_ssam_device() to use
>     container_of_const()
>   firewire: move fw_device() and fw_unit() to use container_of_const()
>   driver core: make struct device_type.uevent() take a const *
>   driver core: make struct device_type.devnode() take a const *
>   driver core: device_get_devnode() should take a const *
>   vio: move to_vio_dev() to use container_of_const()
>   platform/x86: wmi: move dev_to_wblock() and dev_to_wdev to use
>     container_of_const()
>   drivers: hv: move device_to_hv_device to use container_of_const()
>   virtio: move dev_to_virtio() to use container_of_const()
>   drm/mipi-dsi: move to_mipi_dsi_device() to use container_of_const()
>   mcb: move to_mcb_device() to use container_of_const()
>   xen/xenbus: move to_xenbus_device() to use container_of_const()
>   driver core: make struct bus_type.uevent() take a const *
>   kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make uevent() callback take a const *
> 
>  arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c              |  4 ++--
>  arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c               |  4 ++--
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/vio.h             |  5 +----
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c   |  7 ++++++-
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c       |  4 ++--
>  arch/sparc/include/asm/vio.h               |  5 +----
>  arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c                    |  2 +-
>  block/genhd.c                              |  2 +-
>  block/partitions/core.c                    |  4 ++--
>  drivers/acpi/bus.c                         |  2 +-
>  drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c                |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/acpi/internal.h                    |  2 +-
>  drivers/amba/bus.c                         |  4 ++--
>  drivers/base/auxiliary.c                   |  2 +-
>  drivers/base/base.h                        |  2 ++
>  drivers/base/core.c                        |  6 +++---
>  drivers/base/cpu.c                         |  2 +-
>  drivers/base/platform.c                    |  4 ++--
>  drivers/bcma/main.c                        |  6 +++---
>  drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c            |  4 ++--
>  drivers/bus/mhi/ep/main.c                  |  4 ++--
>  drivers/bus/mhi/host/init.c                |  4 ++--
>  drivers/bus/mips_cdmm.c                    |  4 ++--
>  drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c                    |  7 ++++++-
>  drivers/cxl/core/memdev.c                  |  4 ++--
>  drivers/cxl/core/port.c                    |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/cxl/cxl.h                          |  4 ++--
>  drivers/cxl/cxlmem.h                       |  2 +-
>  drivers/dax/bus.c                          |  2 +-
>  drivers/eisa/eisa-bus.c                    |  4 ++--
>  drivers/firewire/core-device.c             |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/bus.c             |  4 ++--
>  drivers/fpga/dfl.c                         |  4 ++--
>  drivers/fsi/fsi-core.c                     |  6 +++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_aux_bus.c   |  7 ++++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.c             |  4 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/host1x/bus.c                   |  2 +-
>  drivers/greybus/core.c                     | 14 +++++++-------
>  drivers/hid/hid-core.c                     |  4 ++--
>  drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c      |  2 +-
>  drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c                     |  2 +-
>  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c                     |  4 ++--
>  drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/core.c          |  6 +++---
>  drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/intel_th.h      |  4 ++--
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c                |  4 ++--
>  drivers/i3c/device.c                       | 14 +-------------
>  drivers/i3c/master.c                       |  4 ++--
>  drivers/input/input.c                      | 16 ++++++++--------
>  drivers/input/serio/serio.c                |  4 ++--
>  drivers/ipack/ipack.c                      |  4 ++--
>  drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c             |  7 ++++++-
>  drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c                     |  4 ++--
>  drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c                 |  2 +-
>  drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c           |  6 +++---
>  drivers/misc/mei/bus.c                     |  4 ++--
>  drivers/misc/tifm_core.c                   |  4 ++--
>  drivers/mmc/core/bus.c                     |  4 ++--
>  drivers/mmc/core/sdio_bus.c                |  4 ++--
>  drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c                 |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c           |  2 +-
>  drivers/nvdimm/bus.c                       |  4 ++--
>  drivers/nvdimm/dax_devs.c                  |  2 +-
>  drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c                 |  2 +-
>  drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h                   | 10 +++++-----
>  drivers/nvdimm/nd.h                        |  4 ++--
>  drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c               |  4 ++--
>  drivers/of/device.c                        |  4 ++--
>  drivers/pci/pci-driver.c                   |  4 ++--
>  drivers/pcmcia/ds.c                        |  4 ++--
>  drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/bus.c  |  4 ++--
>  drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c                 | 15 ++++-----------
>  drivers/rapidio/rio-driver.c               |  4 ++--
>  drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c                 |  4 ++--
>  drivers/s390/cio/css.c                     |  4 ++--
>  drivers/s390/cio/device.c                  |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/s390/cio/scm.c                     |  2 +-
>  drivers/s390/crypto/ap_bus.c               |  4 ++--
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c                  |  4 ++--
>  drivers/slimbus/core.c                     |  4 ++--
>  drivers/soc/qcom/apr.c                     |  4 ++--
>  drivers/soundwire/bus_type.c               |  4 ++--
>  drivers/spi/spi.c                          |  2 +-
>  drivers/spmi/spmi.c                        |  2 +-
>  drivers/ssb/main.c                         |  4 ++--
>  drivers/staging/greybus/gbphy.c            | 14 +++++++-------
>  drivers/tee/tee_core.c                     |  2 +-
>  drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c               |  4 ++--
>  drivers/thunderbolt/tb.h                   |  2 +-
>  drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c              |  6 +++---
>  drivers/tty/serdev/core.c                  |  2 +-
>  drivers/usb/common/ulpi.c                  |  4 ++--
>  drivers/usb/core/driver.c                  |  6 +++---
>  drivers/usb/core/message.c                 |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/usb/core/usb.c                     |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/usb/phy/phy.c                      |  6 +++---
>  drivers/usb/roles/class.c                  |  3 +--
>  drivers/usb/typec/bus.c                    |  4 ++--
>  drivers/usb/typec/class.c                  |  2 +-
>  drivers/virtio/virtio.c                    |  4 ++--
>  drivers/w1/w1.c                            | 10 +++++-----
>  drivers/xen/pvcalls-back.c                 |  2 +-
>  drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c  |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_frontend.c |  4 ++--
>  drivers/zorro/zorro-driver.c               |  4 ++--
>  fs/dlm/lockspace.c                         |  4 ++--
>  fs/gfs2/sys.c                              |  6 +++---
>  include/drm/drm_mipi_dsi.h                 |  5 +----
>  include/linux/acpi.h                       |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/device.h                     |  6 ++----
>  include/linux/device/bus.h                 |  2 +-
>  include/linux/firewire.h                   | 15 +++------------
>  include/linux/hyperv.h                     |  5 +----
>  include/linux/i3c/device.h                 | 11 +++++++++--
>  include/linux/kobject.h                    |  2 +-
>  include/linux/mcb.h                        |  5 +----
>  include/linux/of_device.h                  |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/soundwire/sdw_type.h         |  2 +-
>  include/linux/spi/spi.h                    |  2 +-
>  include/linux/ssb/ssb.h                    |  2 +-
>  include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h  |  5 +----
>  include/linux/virtio.h                     |  5 +----
>  include/sound/hdaudio.h                    |  2 +-
>  include/xen/xenbus.h                       |  7 ++-----
>  sound/aoa/soundbus/core.c                  |  6 +++---
>  sound/hda/hda_bus_type.c                   |  2 +-
>  sound/hda/hdac_device.c                    |  2 +-
>  126 files changed, 283 insertions(+), 309 deletions(-)
> 

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