Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2017-01-12

Re: net: wireless: ath: wil6210: constify cfg80211_ops structures

From: Kalle Valo <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-12 10:55:55
Also in: linux-wireless, lkml

Bhumika Goyal [off-list ref] wrote:
cfg80211_ops structures are only passed as an argument to the function
wiphy_new. This argument is of type const, so cfg80211_ops strutures
having this property can be declared as const.
Done using Coccinelle

@r1 disable optional_qualifier @
identifier i;
position p;
@@
static struct cfg80211_ops i@p = {...};

@ok1@
identifier r1.i;
position p;
@@
wiphy_new(&i@p,...)

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

@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r1.i;
@@
+const
struct cfg80211_ops i;

File size before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  18133	   6632	      0	  24765	   60bd wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.o

File size after:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  18933	   5832	      0	  24765	   60bd wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.o

Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <redacted>
Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

b59eb96181e7 wil6210: constify cfg80211_ops structures

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9479127/

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