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Message-ID: <34d55ac2-83ca-4463-bfb6-35e431340df7@lunn.ch>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 15:57:51 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sungem_phy: Constify struct mii_phy_def
On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 02:22:26PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> 'struct mii_phy_def' are not modified in this driver.
>
> Constifying these structures moves some data to a read-only section, so
> increase overall security.
>
> While at it fix the checkpatch warning related to this patch (some missing
> newlines and spaces around *)
>
> On a x86_64, with allmodconfig:
> Before:
> ======
> 27709 928 0 28637 6fdd drivers/net/sungem_phy.o
>
> After:
> =====
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 28157 476 0 28633 6fd9 drivers/net/sungem_phy.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Andrew
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