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Re: [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: dbg: Mark ucode tlv data as const

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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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>
> Acked-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to iwlwifi-next.git, thanks.

71b6254a6c98 iwlwifi: dbg: Mark ucode tlv data as const




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