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vmxnet3" make ethtool ops const

Message ID 20120104135813.06af6984@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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stephen hemminger Jan. 4, 2012, 9:58 p.m. UTC
All tables of function pointers should be const to make hacks
more difficult. Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>


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Shreyas Bhatewara Jan. 4, 2012, 10:05 p.m. UTC | #1
> All tables of function pointers should be const to make hacks
> more difficult. Compile tested only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Thanks Stephen.

Acked-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
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David Miller Jan. 5, 2012, 6:23 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:58:13 -0800

> All tables of function pointers should be const to make hacks
> more difficult. Compile tested only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Applied.
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Patch

--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c	2011-12-19 09:53:44.815309363 -0800
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c	2012-01-04 13:15:22.773586753 -0800
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@  vmxnet3_set_rss_indir(struct net_device
 }
 #endif
 
-static struct ethtool_ops vmxnet3_ethtool_ops = {
+static const struct ethtool_ops vmxnet3_ethtool_ops = {
 	.get_settings      = vmxnet3_get_settings,
 	.get_drvinfo       = vmxnet3_get_drvinfo,
 	.get_regs_len      = vmxnet3_get_regs_len,