Re: [PATCH net-next resend 10/13] debugfs: constify argument to debugfs_real_fops()

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Nov 10 2016 - 10:43:01 EST


On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:25:59 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 05:12:06PM +0000, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > seq_file users can only access const version of file pointer,
> > because the ->file member of struct seq_operations is marked
> > as such. Make parameter to debugfs_real_fops() const.
> >
> > CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@xxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/debugfs.h | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
> > index 4d3f0d1aec73..bf1907d96097 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
> > @@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ struct debugfs_regset32 {
> > * Must only be called under the protection established by
> > * debugfs_use_file_start().
> > */
> > -static inline const struct file_operations *debugfs_real_fops(struct file *filp)
> > +static inline const struct file_operations *
> > +debugfs_real_fops(const struct file *filp)
>
> Ick. Tell me that looks better :(
>
> Please just don't wrap things like that, just make it go longer than 80
> columns, I can handle the complaints...

Ugh, I should've gone with my gut feeling then. I'll post a fix up
shortly since this is already in Dave's tree.