netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: ppp: make ppp

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Message-ID: <20240304175308.GP403078@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:53:08 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@...liere.net>
Cc: Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@...aro.org>,
	Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: ppp: make ppp_class constant

On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 02:05:59PM -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> Since commit 43a7206b0963 ("driver core: class: make class_register() take
> a const *"), the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
> memory, so move the ppp_class structure to be declared at build time
> placing it into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
> allocated at boot time.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@...liere.net>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>