The content of the platform_data of a struct mfd_cell is simply passed on to the platform_device_add_data() call in mfd_add_device() . platform_device_add_data() already handles the data behind that pointer as const, so there is no reason to not extend this to struct mfd_cell. This allows to pass structs gathered from of_device_get_match_data() as platform-data to sub-devices - which is retrieved as const already. Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mfd/core.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mfd/core.h b/include/linux/mfd/core.h index e8bcad641d8c..faeea7abd688 100644 --- a/include/linux/mfd/core.h +++ b/include/linux/mfd/core.h @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ struct mfd_cell { int (*resume)(struct platform_device *dev); /* platform data passed to the sub devices drivers */ - void *platform_data; + const void *platform_data; size_t pdata_size; /* Matches ACPI */ -- 2.43.0