[PATCH] backlight: ipaq_micro: Make structure micro_bl_props constant

Nishka Dasgupta nishkadg.linux at gmail.com
Wed Sep 4 03:53:40 UTC 2019


On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 21:49, Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:12:51AM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Ping?

Sorry, did my reply not go through?
I had said:
No, the Coccinelle script I'm using doesn't flag any other backlight
drivers. It's possible that the script just missed something. Which
structure in rave-sp-backlight.c could potentially be made const?

Thanking you,
Nishka

>
>
> 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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