From ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com Fri Dec 18 11:57:04 2009 From: Phil Carmody Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:34:21 +0200 Subject: Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const* To: gregkh@suse.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1261143261-399-4-git-send-email-ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Many struct driver_attribute descriptors are purely read-only structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in a ro section. Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 4 ++-- drivers/base/driver.c | 4 ++-- include/linux/device.h | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt @@ -226,5 +226,5 @@ struct driver_attribute driver_attr_debu This can then be used to add and remove the attribute from the driver's directory using: -int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *, struct driver_attribute *); -void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *, struct driver_attribute *); +int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *, const struct driver_attribute *); +void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *, const struct driver_attribute *); --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ DRIVER_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) Creation/Removal: -int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *, struct driver_attribute *); -void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *, struct driver_attribute *); +int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *, const struct driver_attribute *); +void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *, const struct driver_attribute *); --- a/drivers/base/driver.c +++ b/drivers/base/driver.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_find_device); * @attr: driver attribute descriptor. */ int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *drv, - struct driver_attribute *attr) + const struct driver_attribute *attr) { int error; if (drv) @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_create_file); * @attr: driver attribute descriptor. */ void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *drv, - struct driver_attribute *attr) + const struct driver_attribute *attr) { if (drv) sysfs_remove_file(&drv->p->kobj, &attr->attr); --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -166,9 +166,9 @@ struct driver_attribute driver_attr_##_n __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) extern int __must_check driver_create_file(struct device_driver *driver, - struct driver_attribute *attr); + const struct driver_attribute *attr); extern void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *driver, - struct driver_attribute *attr); + const struct driver_attribute *attr); extern int __must_check driver_add_kobj(struct device_driver *drv, struct kobject *kobj,