Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:52:21 +0200 | From | Phil Carmody <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/6] Driver core: Encourage use of const attributes |
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On 18/12/09 00:16 +0100, ext Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:12:10PM +0200, Phil Carmody wrote: [...]> > So here I offer a small patchset which I hope will permit and > > encourage device and other attributes to be made const, and put > > in read-only sections. > > > > 1-3 address the three attribute types which seemed to be trivially > > const-able, and are the important part of the set. > > I like these, very nice.
Thanks, I can possibly sniff a little bit deeper, and see if there are any other obvious throwing-away-of-consts nearby.
> > 4 adds a new macro to encourage the use of Const ATTRibutes, > > and may need a better name. (I wanted to avoid RO, for example.) > > Hm, is this really needed? How badly do things break if you change the > current attribute macros to use 'const'? What subsystems are not using > const?
That was the first thing that went through my mind, but I didn't want to be too brave. He who dares wins though, and I can certainly give that a try. allmodconfig is my friend.
> > 5 and 6 are merely two quick examples of how easy it is to adopt > > the new const convention. In reality, these structures have been > > constant and treated as constant by the driver core all along, it's > > just that one word was missing from a few important places. > > > > I would hope to submit a patchset with 1-3 and a possibly modified > > 4. The migrations themselves will belong in different trees. > > I'll be glad to take 1-3 now, and queue it up for .34.
They cleave cleanly at that point, so I'll resend with a [PATCH] prefix.
Many thanks, and seasons greetings,
Phil
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