Re: [PATCH 11/31] Constify struct file_operations for 2.6.32 v1

From: Emese Revfy
Date: Sat Dec 05 2009 - 20:46:47 EST


Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:50:23AM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:
>> Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 01:02:59AM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:
>>>> -static struct file_operations ptmx_fops;
>>>> +static const struct file_operations ptmx_fops = {
>>>> + .llseek = no_llseek,
>>>> + .read = tty_read,
>>>> + .write = tty_write,
>>>> + .poll = tty_poll,
>>>> + .unlocked_ioctl = tty_ioctl,
>>>> + .compat_ioctl = tty_compat_ioctl,
>>>> + .open = ptmx_open,
>>>> + .release = tty_release,
>>>> + .fasync = tty_fasync,
>>>> +};
>>> You just made these functions all global, for no real good reason. Why
>>> did you do this?
>> I think this is the only way to make ptmx_fops const, provided we want to.
>
> Why do we want to?

Because I saw that checkpatch.pl itself tries to ensure the same I went
through the whole tree looking for non-const file_operations structures
and tried to make them const as best as I could. If you think making
ptmx_fops const is not worth the effort I will remove it from the patch.
--
Emese
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