Re: [PATCH 16/20] staging: brcm80211: declared global vars in softmac phy as const

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 07:09:04PM -0700, Franky Lin wrote:
> From: Roland Vossen <rvossen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Global variables are undesirable unless they are read only.
> 
> Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phytbl_lcn.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phytbl_lcn.c
> index 15c5ffc..1b11b2f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phytbl_lcn.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phytbl_lcn.c
> @@ -1611,7 +1611,7 @@ const u32 dot11lcnphytbl_rx_gain_info_sz_rev0 =
>  	sizeof(dot11lcnphytbl_rx_gain_info_rev0) /
>  	sizeof(dot11lcnphytbl_rx_gain_info_rev0[0]);
>  
> -static const u32 dot11lcnphytbl_rx_gain_info_sz_rev1 =
> +const u32 dot11lcnphytbl_rx_gain_info_sz_rev1 =
>  	sizeof(dot11lcnphytbl_rx_gain_info_rev1) /
>  	sizeof(dot11lcnphytbl_rx_gain_info_rev1[0]);

That seems like an anomaly. In a commit that is supposed
to declare variables as const, the linkage of a variable
changed. Likewise, the removal of extern global variable
declarations in phy_int.h also does not seem to belong
here.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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