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

From: Emese Revfy <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:47:44 +0100

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