Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] device property: Constify fwnode_handle_get()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sun Apr 10 2022 - 10:11:08 EST


On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 2:35 AM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 09:48:43PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > As to_of_node() suggests and the way the code in the OF and software node
> > back ends actually uses the fwnode handle, it may be constified. Do this
> > for good.
>
> How?
>
> If the fwnode is const, then the struct it contains must be presumed to be
> const, too.

Why? The idea is that we are not updating the fwnode, but the container.
The container may or may not be const. It's orthogonal, no?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko