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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.58.3 (3.58.3-1.fc43) X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 X-malware-bazaar: not-scanned On Thu, 2026-02-26 at 21:43 +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote: > 'struct codec_connection' are not modified in this driver. >=20 > Constifying these structures moves some data to a read-only section, so > increases overall security. >=20 The security claim seems like a stretch for this data, but I guess since it's never modified making it const makes some sense. johannes