From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: "Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@kernel.org>,
"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"Onur Özkan" <work@onurozkan.dev>,
"Matthew Brost" <matthew.brost@intel.com>,
"Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>,
"Rodrigo Vivi" <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
"Dan Williams" <djbw@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
"Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] configfs: Allow the registration of const struct configfs_attribute
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:43:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alnrJJNb1hwDrAxI@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260716-configfs-const-base-v1-5-c545a4053cb5@weissschuh.net>
On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 07:09:30PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The attribute structure defined in driver code never need to be
> modified. Allow them to be marked as const.
>
> As there are many drivers which use these attributes, prepare for a
> phased transition by using a union of const and non-const attributes.
How many drivers need to be migrated? Isn't this a mechanism move?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-17 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-16 17:09 [PATCH 0/6] configfs: Allow the registration of const struct configfs_attribute Thomas Weißschuh
2026-07-16 17:09 ` [PATCH 1/6] rust: configfs: remove mutability from some field initializers Thomas Weißschuh
2026-07-16 17:09 ` [PATCH 2/6] configfs: Constify is_visible/is_visible_bin in configfs_group_operations Thomas Weißschuh
2026-07-17 8:12 ` Breno Leitao
2026-07-16 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/6] configfs: Treat attribute structures as const internally Thomas Weißschuh
2026-07-16 17:19 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-16 17:09 ` [PATCH 4/6] configfs: Constify configfs_bin_attribute Thomas Weißschuh
2026-07-16 17:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-16 17:09 ` [PATCH 5/6] configfs: Allow the registration of const struct configfs_attribute Thomas Weißschuh
2026-07-17 8:43 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-07-16 17:09 ` [PATCH 6/6] samples: configfs: constify the configfs_attribute structures Thomas Weißschuh
2026-07-17 8:42 ` Breno Leitao
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alnrJJNb1hwDrAxI@gmail.com \
--to=leitao@debian.org \
--cc=a.hindborg@kernel.org \
--cc=acourbot@nvidia.com \
--cc=airlied@gmail.com \
--cc=aliceryhl@google.com \
--cc=bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com \
--cc=boqun@kernel.org \
--cc=dakr@kernel.org \
--cc=daniel.almeida@collabora.com \
--cc=djbw@kernel.org \
--cc=dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org \
--cc=gary@garyguo.net \
--cc=intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org \
--cc=lenb@kernel.org \
--cc=linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-coco@lists.linux.dev \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux@weissschuh.net \
--cc=lossin@kernel.org \
--cc=matthew.brost@intel.com \
--cc=ojeda@kernel.org \
--cc=rafael@kernel.org \
--cc=rodrigo.vivi@intel.com \
--cc=rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=simona@ffwll.ch \
--cc=tamird@kernel.org \
--cc=thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com \
--cc=tmgross@umich.edu \
--cc=work@onurozkan.dev \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.