These structures are only used to copy into other structures, so declare them as const. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r disable optional_qualifier@ identifier i; position p; @@ static struct dvb_tuner_ops i@p = { ... }; @ok1@ identifier r.i; expression e; position p; @@ e = i@p @ok2@ identifier r.i; expression e1, e2; position p; @@ memcpy(e1, &i@p, e2) @bad@ position p != {r.p,ok1.p,ok2.p}; identifier r.i; struct dvb_tuner_ops e; @@ e@i@p @depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@ identifier r.i; @@ static +const struct dvb_tuner_ops i = { ... }; // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-tuner.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-tuner.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-tuner.c index 7d16252..f141dcc 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-tuner.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/mxl111sf-tuner.c @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ static int mxl111sf_tuner_release(struct dvb_frontend *fe) /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ -static struct dvb_tuner_ops mxl111sf_tuner_tuner_ops = { +static const struct dvb_tuner_ops mxl111sf_tuner_tuner_ops = { .info = { .name = "MaxLinear MxL111SF", #if 0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html