Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> writes: > The ucode TLV data may be read-only and should be treated as const > pointers, but currently a few code forcibly cast to the writable > pointer unnecessarily. This gave developers a wrong impression as if > it can be modified, resulting in crashing regressions already a couple > of times. > > This patch adds the const prefix to those cast pointers, so that such > attempt can be caught more easily in future. > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> So this need to go to -next, right? Does this depend on patch 1 or can this be applied independently? -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
