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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 04:45:41 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Ricardo B. Marliere" <ricardo@marliere.net>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] const_structs.checkpatch: add bus_type
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In-Reply-To: <20240204-bus_cleanup-checkpatch-v1-1-8d51dcecda20@marliere.net>

On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 07:39:57PM -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> Since commit d492cc2573a0 ("driver core: device.h: make struct bus_type
> a const *"), the driver core can properly handle constant struct
> bus_type. Make sure that new usages of the struct already enter the tree
> as const.
> 
> Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>

Note, there are a handful of in-kernel instances where this will not
work, but it's not worth special-casing them, they will be obvious when
attempts to change them happen.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>