linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipack: make ipack_bus

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 15:41:52 +0100
From: Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40@...il.com>
To: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
Cc: Jens Taprogge <jens.taprogge@...rogge.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	industrypack-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipack: make ipack_bus_type const

On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 05:00:13PM -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
> move the ipack_bus_type variable to be a constant structure as well,
> placing it into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.
> 
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@...liere.net>
> ---
>  drivers/ipack/ipack.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ipack/ipack.c b/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> index b1471ba016a5..866bf48d803b 100644
> --- a/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> +++ b/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static struct attribute *ipack_attrs[] = {
>  };
>  ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(ipack);
>  
> -static struct bus_type ipack_bus_type = {
> +static const struct bus_type ipack_bus_type = {
>  	.name      = "ipack",
>  	.probe     = ipack_bus_probe,
>  	.match     = ipack_bus_match,
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 41b9fb381a486360b2daaec0c7480f8e3ff72bc7
> change-id: 20240204-bus_cleanup-ipack-7e502021db1f
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@...liere.net>
> 

Hello Ricardo,

Thank you for your patch.

Acked-by: Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40@...il.com>

Greg, would you please add it to your misc tree.

Thanks and regards,
Vaibhav Gupta