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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:55:43 +0100
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
To:     Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>
CC:     <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, <qca_merez@....qualcomm.com>,
        <kvalo@...eaurora.org>, <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        <wil6210@....qualcomm.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>
Subject: Re: net: wireless: ath: wil6210: constify cfg80211_ops structures

Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com> wrote:
> cfg80211_ops structures are only passed as an argument to the function
> wiphy_new. This argument is of type const, so cfg80211_ops strutures
> having this property can be declared as const.
> Done using Coccinelle
> 
> @r1 disable optional_qualifier @
> identifier i;
> position p;
> @@
> static struct cfg80211_ops i@p = {...};
> 
> @ok1@
> identifier r1.i;
> position p;
> @@
> wiphy_new(&i@p,...)
> 
> @bad@
> position p!={r1.p,ok1.p};
> identifier r1.i;
> @@
> i@p
> 
> @depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
> identifier r1.i;
> @@
> +const
> struct cfg80211_ops i;
> 
> File size before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   18133	   6632	      0	  24765	   60bd wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.o
> 
> File size after:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   18933	   5832	      0	  24765	   60bd wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

b59eb96181e7 wil6210: constify cfg80211_ops structures

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9479127/

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