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This structure is only used to copy into other structure, so declare
it as const.

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@r disable optional_qualifier@
identifier i;
position p;
@@
static struct gpio_chip i@p = { ... };

@ok@
identifier r.i;
expression e;
position p;
@@
e = i@p;

@bad@
position p != {r.p,ok.p};
identifier r.i;
struct gpio_chip e;
@@
e@i@p

@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r.i;
@@
static
+const
 struct gpio_chip i = { ... };

In the following log you can see a significant difference in the code size
and data segment, hence in the dec segment. This log is the output
of the size command, before and after the code change:

before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  21671    3632     128   25431    6357 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.o

after:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  21366    3576     128   25070    61ee drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.o
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Acked-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>