netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: dbg: Mark ucode tlv data as const

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:50:54 +0200
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: dbg: Mark ucode tlv data as const

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> writes:

> The ucode TLV data may be read-only and should be treated as const
> pointers, but currently a few code forcibly cast to the writable
> pointer unnecessarily.  This gave developers a wrong impression as if
> it can be modified, resulting in crashing regressions already a couple
> of times.
>
> This patch adds the const prefix to those cast pointers, so that such
> attempt can be caught more easily in future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

So this need to go to -next, right? Does this depend on patch 1 or can
this be applied independently?

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