Re: [PATCH] media: i2c: video: constify pointers to hwmon_channel_info

[Guenter Roeck]

On 4/7/23 08:00, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Statically allocated array of pointed to hwmon_channel_info can be made
> const for safety.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> This depends on hwmon core patch:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230406203103.3011503-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Therefore I propose this should also go via hwmon tree.

I am not going to apply patches for 10+ subsystems through the hwmon tree.
This can only result in chaos. The dependent patch is available at

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git hwmon-const

or wait until after the next commit window to apply this patch.

Thanks,
Guenter

> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-hwmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>   drivers/media/i2c/video-i2c.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/video-i2c.c b/drivers/media/i2c/video-i2c.c
> index dddf9827b314..abd472dcd497 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/video-i2c.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/video-i2c.c
> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static const struct hwmon_channel_info amg88xx_temp = {
>   	.config = amg88xx_temp_config,
>   };
>   
> -static const struct hwmon_channel_info *amg88xx_info[] = {
> +static const struct hwmon_channel_info * const amg88xx_info[] = {
>   	&amg88xx_temp,
>   	NULL
>   };