Re: [PATCH] watchdog: coh901327_wdt: constify watchdog_ops structure

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>]

On 07/07/2017 08:45 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 07/07/2017 05:33 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Check for watchdog_ops structures that are only stored in the ops 
>> field of
>> a watchdog_device structure. This field is declared const, so 
>> watchdog_ops
>> structures that have this property can be declared as const also.
>>
>> This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic 
>> patch:
>>
>> @r
>> disable optional_qualifier@
>> identifier i;
>> position p;
>> @@
>> static struct watchdog_ops i@p = { ... };
>>
>> @ok@
>> identifier r.i;
>> struct watchdog_device e;
>> position p;
>> @@
>> e.ops = &i@p;
>>
>> @bad@
>> position p != {r.p,ok.p};
>> identifier r.i;
>> struct watchdog_ops e;
>> @@
>> e@i@p
>>
>> @depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
>> identifier r.i;
>> @@
>> static
>> +const
>>   struct watchdog_ops i = { ... };
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
>

Thank you, Guenter.

>> ---
>>   drivers/watchdog/coh901327_wdt.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/coh901327_wdt.c 
>> b/drivers/watchdog/coh901327_wdt.c
>> index 38dd60f0..4410337 100644
>> --- a/drivers/watchdog/coh901327_wdt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/coh901327_wdt.c
>> @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static const struct watchdog_info coh901327_ident 
>> = {
>>       .identity = DRV_NAME,
>>   };
>>   -static struct watchdog_ops coh901327_ops = {
>> +static const struct watchdog_ops coh901327_ops = {
>>       .owner = THIS_MODULE,
>>       .start = coh901327_start,
>>       .stop = coh901327_stop,
>>
>

-- 
Gustavo A. R. Silva