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From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc:     linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: dbg: Mark ucode tlv data as const
References: <20210112132449.22243-1-tiwai@suse.de>
        <20210112132449.22243-3-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:50:54 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20210112132449.22243-3-tiwai@suse.de> (Takashi Iwai's message of
        "Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:24:49 +0100")
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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> 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@suse.de>

So this need to go to -next, right? Does this depend on patch 1 or can
this be applied independently?

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