From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:19:48 +0900 Message-ID: <20060913111948.2ab822e8@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060908111613.12c1f9b8@localhost.localdomain> <4506DB63.2040904@pobox.com> <20060913110844.42623dcb@localhost.localdomain> <4507690E.2030804@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60834 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751504AbWIMCUG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:20:06 -0400 To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <4507690E.2030804@pobox.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:12:30 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > No, they can pass non-const and everthing works. > > Changing the ethtool_ops to have const args would require a global change. > > Re-stating previous email: I need a patch which updates all drivers to > declare their ethtool_ops structs const. > > Jeff > > I'll do one mondo patch for all drivers.