Re: [PATCH] net: ieee802154: constify ieee802154_ops structures

From: Stefan Schmidt
Date: Mon Nov 21 2016 - 15:40:19 EST


Hello.

On 21/11/16 21:30, Bhumika Goyal wrote:
Declare the structure ieee802154_ops as const as it is only passed as an
argument to the function ieee802154_alloc_hw. This argument is of type
const struct ieee802154_ops *, so ieee80254_ops structures having this
property can be declared as const.
Done using Coccinelle:

@r1 disable optional_qualifier @
identifier i;
position p;
@@
static struct ieee802154_ops i@p = {...};

@ok1@
identifier r1.i;
position p;
expression e1;
@@
ieee802154_alloc_hw(e1,&i@p)

@bad@
position p!={r1.p,ok1.p};
identifier r1.i;
@@
i@p

@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r1.i;
@@
static
+const
struct ieee802154_ops i={...};

@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r1.i;
@@
+const
struct ieee802154_ops i;

The before and after size details of the affected files are:

text data bss dec hex filename
8669 1176 16 9861 2685 drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.o
8805 1048 16 9869 268d drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.o

text data bss dec hex filename
7211 2296 32 9539 2543 drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.o
7339 2160 32 9531 253b drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.o

Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c
index 9fa7ac9..4ff4c7d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ static int adf7242_rx(struct adf7242_local *lp)
return 0;
}

-static struct ieee802154_ops adf7242_ops = {
+static const struct ieee802154_ops adf7242_ops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.xmit_sync = adf7242_xmit,
.ed = adf7242_ed,
diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c
index 1056ed1..322864a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static void atusb_stop(struct ieee802154_hw *hw)
return 0;
}

-static struct ieee802154_ops atusb_ops = {
+static const struct ieee802154_ops atusb_ops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.xmit_async = atusb_xmit,
.ed = atusb_ed,



Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

regards
Stefan Schmidt