Author: Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu> The id_table field of the struct usb_device_id is constant in so it is worth to make the initialization data also constant. The semantic match that finds this kind of pattern is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @r@ disable decl_init,const_decl_init; identifier I1, I2, x; @@ struct I1 { … const struct I2 *x; …