Re: [PATCH 25/26] pch_gbe: constify local structures
From: David Miller
Date: Mon Sep 12 2016 - 12:33:12 EST
From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:07:15 +0200 (CEST)
> So foo is protected, but its lifetime of interest is quite short. But we
> can't set the ops field of the type of xxx to be const either, because it
> is obviously not - the code above modifies it.
You can definitely make it a pointer to a const thing.
Just like "netdev_ops" in struct net_device is const.