Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ashmem: Declared file operation with const keyword Warning found by checkpatch.pl script.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Mar 13 2022 - 04:10:03 EST


On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 02:11:27AM +0530, shaikh kamal wrote:
> Signed-off-by: shaikh kamal <shaikhkamal2012@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> index ddbde3f8430e..4c6b420fbf4d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ ashmem_vmfile_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
>
> static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> {
> - static struct file_operations vmfile_fops;
> + static const struct file_operations vmfile_fops;
> struct ashmem_area *asma = file->private_data;
> int ret = 0;
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>

Hi,

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