From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF66C61DA4 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2023 23:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229587AbjCFXlO (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2023 18:41:14 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52454 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229576AbjCFXlN (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2023 18:41:13 -0500 Received: from mail-pj1-f41.google.com (mail-pj1-f41.google.com [209.85.216.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CE974FA93 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:41:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pj1-f41.google.com with SMTP id qa18-20020a17090b4fd200b0023750b675f5so14827466pjb.3 for ; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:41:07 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; t=1678146066; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=gvucD3FPPzAJ/aSPL2/W9Hj5N0HRrc+dCrfCXMqZo74=; b=7pmFHyl/x0eJwSBG1wiUn17P2HXKMtWS6nn4sWSZJcIk0dwSRTjPx5VhM7Yt+tuFR+ kQFY+A2wVIOR3Ipz5x46MfqgHxusmjTl4dBQigqVrMu2Moe7j2GXGAy+hz6UZ60LUrBm jW/kkYowO2YQZsdMGGpK+JqBCXouZ8SFzqEzCm7Vw62EjHX6jliv59NgqT5uFzeRy3a7 vESc9WdjLqT6r+EbKgRk6s4kR1Ou+LrgiL4NcvTJtQWKUOR/V34nfCNVZp+SOuUl6aUg n6piozqXt0HByvG1Buxx0w+0NE2RfDcrpXuKC0zqg7xLGSaLmR3On2pmWXeQqflUzgGu 87nQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKX7uOKj8nE0w08bGKT5xz3pxCdrXTnfWKHqc5QnGXhyWNswFWfo M99murQkzqyAax3jlaBethg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set8bQoSMkKX03lYVSgMd2kfksLkY6q3YswS7CCkhKTvVT8g7tjGQTVo818JSQ/bVSADduFxDhQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:ebd2:b0:19a:96ea:3850 with SMTP id p18-20020a170902ebd200b0019a96ea3850mr11195743plg.17.1678146065390; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.132.235] ([63.145.95.70]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id lh6-20020a170903290600b00198e7d97171sm7176535plb.128.2023.03.06.15.41.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:41:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <23461135-a35c-1705-dd5f-90b16f75fa1b@acm.org> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:41:03 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/81] scsi: core: Declare most SCSI host template pointers const Content-Language: en-US To: Finn Thain Cc: John Garry , "Martin K . Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Ming Lei , Hannes Reinecke , Mike Christie , "James E.J. Bottomley" References: <20230304003103.2572793-1-bvanassche@acm.org> <20230304003103.2572793-3-bvanassche@acm.org> <495d7eeb-bf5c-8333-1945-2ab1614f011f@oracle.com> <59da25c2-a903-d004-ba23-712df9259f5e@oracle.com> <0b74e472-f743-bcc2-48ed-3e564a6c0714@linux-m68k.org> From: Bart Van Assche In-Reply-To: <0b74e472-f743-bcc2-48ed-3e564a6c0714@linux-m68k.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 3/6/23 15:34, Finn Thain wrote: > Would it alter the driver .o files? If not, the changes won't require > actual testing. Hi Finn, My understanding is that declaring a static data structure const may move it to another section in the .o file but otherwise that the .o file should not be affected. I agree that retesting shouldn't be necessary for patches that only involve making data structures const. Thanks, Bart.