[PATCH 0/8] drivers: phy: Constify static phy_ops structs

Vinod Koul vkoul at kernel.org
Mon Aug 31 05:06:52 EDT 2020


On 24-08-20, 00:00, Rikard Falkeborn wrote:
> This series constifies all static phy_ops structs in drivers/phy.
> Typically the only usage is to pass the address of it to devm_phy_create()
> which takes a const pointer. The lone exception is in
> drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-ipq4019-usb.c where the address of the
> structs is assigned to the data-field in of_device_id, which is a const
> void pointer.
> 
> Making the structs const allows the compiler to put them in read-only
> memory.
> 
> The patches are all independent of each other, and have been
> compile-tested only.

Applied all, thanks

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~Vinod



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