linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] siox: constify the struct device

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:23:15 +0100
From: Thorsten Scherer <T.Scherer@...elmann.de>
To: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, 
	Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] siox: constify the struct device_type usage

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 04:49:30PM -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> Since commit aed65af1cc2f ("drivers: make device_type const"), the driver
> core can properly handle constant struct device_type. Move the
> siox_device_type and siox_master_type variables to be constant structures
> as well, placing it into read-only memory which can not be modified at
> runtime.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@...liere.net>

Acked-by: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer@...elmann.de>

@gregkh: Could you please pick up this patch?  There already is another
patch [1] from Ricardo.  I wonder if this one flew under you radar or
if I did something wrong...

Thanks to you both.

Best regards
Thorsten

[1] 20240219-device_cleanup-siox-v1-1-eb32ca2b0113@...liere.net