[PATCH] powerpc: make of_device_ids const

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Sep 12 18:34:24 EST 2014


On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 21:56 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> of_device_ids (i.e. compatible strings and the respective data) are not
> supposed to change at runtime. All functions working with of_device_ids
> provided by <linux/of.h> work with const of_device_ids. This allows to
> mark all struct of_device_id const, too.
> 
> While touching these line also put the __init annotation at the right
> position where necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> Hello,
> 
> I don't know how arch/powerpc is maintained. So please tell me if I
> should split this patch further.
> 
> I manually checked that all const annotations are OK, and the 0day build
> bot didn't find a regression.

Thanks.

We'll take it as-is, it seems to merge cleanly.

We track patches via patchwork, this one is at:
  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/387959/

cheers




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