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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: constify ops structs
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:35:26 +0400
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Hi Len,

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 21:07 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Structs battery_file, acpi_dock_ops, file_operations,
> thermal_cooling_device_ops, thermal_zone_device_ops, kernel_param_ops
> are not changed in runtime.  It is safe to make them const.
> register_hotplug_dock_device() was altered to take const "ops" argument
> to respect acpi_dock_ops' const notion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
> ---

Any problems with the patch?

>  Len, I think it can be applied as a single patch to acpi tree as the
>  only non-acpi thing is acpi_dock_ops in ata/ and pci/, which is really
>  trivial.

Thanks,

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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