Re: [PATCH 2/2] watchdog: constify watchdog_ops structures

[Guenter Roeck]

On 09/01/2016 10:35 AM, Julia Lawall 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.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @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 = { ... };
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>


Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>