Re: [PATCH] drm: vmwgfx: constify vmw_fence_ops

Daniel Vetter
2017-08-30T08:30:35Z

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 08:21:46AM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> On 08/30/2017 07:47 AM, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> > vmw_fence_ops are not supposed to change at runtime. Functions
> > "dma_fence_init" working with const vmw_fence_ops provided
> > by <linux/dma-fence.h>. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c
> > index b8bc5bc..abc5f03 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c
> > @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static long vmw_fence_wait(struct dma_fence *f, bool intr, signed long timeout)
> > return ret;
> > }
> > -static struct dma_fence_ops vmw_fence_ops = {
> > +static const struct dma_fence_ops vmw_fence_ops = {
> > .get_driver_name = vmw_fence_get_driver_name,
> > .get_timeline_name = vmw_fence_get_timeline_name,
> > .enable_signaling = vmw_fence_enable_signaling,
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>

Does this mean you'll merge it, or does this mean you'll expect someone
else to merge this?

I'm always confused when maintainers reply with an r-b/ack for a patch
only touching their driver, and no further information at all.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation