On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 10:27:53PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com
[ Upstream commit ca283ea9920ac20ae23ed398b693db3121045019 ]
Continue adding const to parameters. This is for clarity and minor addition to safety. There are some minor effects, in the assembly code and .ko measured on release config.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
What's the rationale for adding this to stable? Parameter constification is for programmers and to have cleaner interfaces but there's hardly any stability improvement.