Re: [PATCH 1/1] ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 09:11:29 EST


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:08:31PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:06:02 -0500
> > > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > +static struct file_operations rb_simple_fops = {
> > >
> > > should be const...
> > >
> > > Probably it isn't worth fixing. Someone(tm) should do period sweeps -
> > > 10% of our file_operationses aren't const.
> >
> > Thanks, I never really thought about it.
> >
> > I'll add to my todo list to send out a patch that cleans all of this
> > up. I think I'm guilty at doing this in more than one place.
>
> Perhaps checkpatch.pl could remind us about it? a new file_operations
> struct definition should be const in 99.9% of the cases.

Added to my TODO list.

-apw
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