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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:02:01 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/16] platform/surface: aggregator: move
 to_ssam_device() to use container_of_const()
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To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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From:   Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
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On 1/11/23 12:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The driver core is changing to pass some pointers as const, so move
> to_ssam_device() to use container_of_const() to handle this change.
> to_ssam_device() now properly keeps the const-ness of the pointer passed
> into it, while as before it could be lost.
> 
> Cc: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
> Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>   include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h | 5 +----
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h b/include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h
> index 46c45d1b6368..24151a0e2c96 100644
> --- a/include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h
> @@ -229,10 +229,7 @@ static inline bool is_ssam_device(struct device *d)
>    * Return: Returns a pointer to the &struct ssam_device wrapping the given
>    * device @d.
>    */
> -static inline struct ssam_device *to_ssam_device(struct device *d)
> -{
> -	return container_of(d, struct ssam_device, dev);
> -}
> +#define to_ssam_device(d)	container_of_const(d, struct ssam_device, dev)
>   
>   /**
>    * to_ssam_device_driver() - Casts the given device driver to a SSAM client

A small note in addition to the comment by Hans: I think it might be a
good idea to convert the to_ssam_device_driver() function as well. I
could also send this in as a follow-up patch.

Regards,
Max