netdev - Re: [PATCH 04/12] net: vxlan: constify the struct device

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:49:47 -0300
From: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
To: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, 
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, 
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>, 
	Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@...aro.org>, Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>, 
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux.dev, linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] net: vxlan: constify the struct device_type usage

Hi Guillaume,

On 19 Feb 12:43, Guillaume Nault wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 05:13:26PM -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 vxlan_type
> > variable to be a constant structure as well, placing it into read-only
> > memory which can not be modified at runtime.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
> 
> Note: To help maintainers (and potentially reviewers) work please
> write in the subject prefix which tree you're targetting. For this
> series, it should be "[PATCH net-next xx/yy]".

Makes sense, will keep this in mind next time!

Thanks for reviewing,
-	Ricardo.