Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:35:46 +0300 | From | Sakari Ailus <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] device property: Constify fwnode_handle_get() |
| |
On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 05:10:23PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 2:35 AM Sakari Ailus > <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> 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?
As you wrote: may or may not. The stricter requirement, i.e. const, must be thus followed. I think it would be fine (after adding a comment on what is being done) if you *know* the container struct is not const. But that is not the case here.
-- Sakari Ailus
| |