Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:23:12 +0200 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 06/22] pinctrl: core: Make pins const in struct group_desc |
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 03:41:55PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 12:21:45PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 9:04 PM Andy Shevchenko > > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > It's unclear why it's not a const from day 1. Make the pins member > > > const in struct group_desc. Update necessary APIs.
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> > > int pinctrl_generic_add_group(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, const char *name, > > > - int *gpins, int ngpins, void *data); > > > + const int *pins, int num_pins, void *data); > > > > > > int pinctrl_generic_remove_group(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, > > > unsigned int group_selector); > > > > Probably this is also the right moment to change all of these to arrays > > of unsigned ints? Else you will have mixed int/unsigned int after > > "[PATCH v3 13/22] pinctrl: core: Embed struct pingroup into struct > > group_desc", and purely unsigned int after "[PATCH v3 22/22] pinctrl: > > core: Remove unused members from struct group_desc". > > Hmm... Can it be done later? > > I can, of course try to change the parameter here to be unsigned, but it most > likely fail the build for those drivers means need more patches, more delay to > this series. > > Linus?
On the first glance updating API here does not fail the build. Lemme incorporate this into v4.
Meanwhile the drivers I left untouched, it might be separate changes to convert from int to const unsigned int.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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