Re: [PATCH] [ARM] locomo: make locomo_bus_type constant and static

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 10:21:20PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 07:33:06PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type,
> > move the locomo_bus_type variable to be a constant structure as well,
> > placing it into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.
> > 
> > It's also never used outside of arch/arm/common/locomo.c so make it
> > static and don't export it as no one is using it.
> > 
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/common/locomo.c               | 4 +++-
> >  arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/locomo.h | 2 --
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/common/locomo.c b/arch/arm/common/locomo.c
> > index 70480dd9e96d..6d0c9f7268ba 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/common/locomo.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/common/locomo.c
> > @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ struct locomo {
> >  #endif
> >  };
> >  
> > +static const struct bus_type locomo_bus_type;
> > +
> 
> If you move up locomo_bus_type together with its three callbacks before
> locomo_init_one_child, you don't need the extra declaration here.

I was trying to go for "least intrusive and most obvious change
possible" here, given that this file hasn't been touched in over a
decade by anyone else for anything other than api changes.  And even
then, it was just a tiny fix, this is a very old driver, what's the odds
that it's even used anymore?

thanks,

greg k-h