[PATCH] backlight: ipaq_micro: Make structure micro_bl_props constant

Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson at linaro.org
Tue Aug 13 09:12:51 UTC 2019


On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 02:28:55PM +0530, Nishka Dasgupta wrote:
> Static structure micro_bl_props, having type backlight_properties, is
> used only once, when it is passed as the last argument to function
> devm_backlight_device_register(). devm_backlight_device_register() is
> defined with its last parameter being declared constant. Hence make
> micro_bl_props itself constant as well.
> Issue found with Coccinelle.

Did you do any review to see if this pattern occurs in other backlight
drivers (it looks to me like the same pattern appears in
rave-sp-backlight.c... do the tools bring that one out as well).


Daniel.


> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/ipaq_micro_bl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/ipaq_micro_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/ipaq_micro_bl.c
> index 1123f67c12b3..85b16cc82878 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/ipaq_micro_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/ipaq_micro_bl.c
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static const struct backlight_ops micro_bl_ops = {
>  	.update_status  = micro_bl_update_status,
>  };
>  
> -static struct backlight_properties micro_bl_props = {
> +static const struct backlight_properties micro_bl_props = {
>  	.type = BACKLIGHT_RAW,
>  	.max_brightness = 255,
>  	.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK,
> -- 
> 2.19.1
> 


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