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