Re: [PATCH 14/26] spi: dw-pci: constify local structures

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Sep 12 2016 - 08:01:58 EST




On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Julia Lawall wrote:

> For structure types defined in the same file or local header files, find
> top-level static structure declarations that have the following
> properties:
> 1. Never reassigned.
> 2. Address never taken
> 3. Not passed to a top-level macro call
> 4. No pointer or array-typed field passed to a function or stored in a
> variable.
> Declare structures having all of these properties as const.

Please ignore this patch. The file contains eg

{ PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, 0x0800), (kernel_ulong_t)&spi_pci_mid_desc_1}

which Coccinelle was incorrectly interpreting as a bit and operation, due
to not realizing that kernel_ulong_t is a type.

julia

> Done using Coccinelle.
> Based on a suggestion by Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> The semantic patch seems too long for a commit log, but is in the cover
> letter.
>
> drivers/spi/spi-dw-pci.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-pci.c b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-pci.c
> index ef7db75..60198a3 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-pci.c
> @@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ struct spi_pci_desc {
> u16 bus_num;
> };
>
> -static struct spi_pci_desc spi_pci_mid_desc_1 = {
> +static const struct spi_pci_desc spi_pci_mid_desc_1 = {
> .setup = dw_spi_mid_init,
> .num_cs = 5,
> .bus_num = 0,
> };
>
> -static struct spi_pci_desc spi_pci_mid_desc_2 = {
> +static const struct spi_pci_desc spi_pci_mid_desc_2 = {
> .setup = dw_spi_mid_init,
> .num_cs = 2,
> .bus_num = 1,
>
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