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Date:   Fri, 7 Apr 2023 16:06:57 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
        Avri Altman <avri.altman@....com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ufs: hwmon: constify pointers to hwmon_channel_info

On 4/7/23 08:01, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Statically allocated array of pointed to hwmon_channel_info can be made
> const for safety.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> This depends on hwmon core patch:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230406203103.3011503-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org/
> 
> Therefore I propose this should also go via hwmon tree.
> 

I am not going to apply patches for 10+ subsystems through the hwmon tree.
This can only result in chaos. The dependent patch is available at

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git hwmon-const

or wait until after the next commit window to apply this patch.

Thanks,
Guenter

> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> Cc: linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>   drivers/ufs/core/ufs-hwmon.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ufs/core/ufs-hwmon.c b/drivers/ufs/core/ufs-hwmon.c
> index 4c6a872b7a7c..229e2ad70903 100644
> --- a/drivers/ufs/core/ufs-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/ufs/core/ufs-hwmon.c
> @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static umode_t ufs_hwmon_is_visible(const void *_data, enum hwmon_sensor_types t
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> -static const struct hwmon_channel_info *ufs_hwmon_info[] = {
> +static const struct hwmon_channel_info * const ufs_hwmon_info[] = {
>   	HWMON_CHANNEL_INFO(temp, HWMON_T_ENABLE | HWMON_T_INPUT | HWMON_T_CRIT | HWMON_T_LCRIT),
>   	NULL
>   };