From aed65af1cc2f6fc9ded5a8158f1405a02cf6d2ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:12:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] drivers: make device_type const
The device_type structure does not contain data that changes
during usage and should be const. This allows devices to declare
the struct const.
I have patches to change all the subsystems, but need the infra
structure change first.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/device.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 81b78ede37c47..fb8130ceea109 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static void device_remove_groups(struct device *dev,
static int device_add_attrs(struct device *dev)
{
struct class *class = dev->class;
- struct device_type *type = dev->type;
+ const struct device_type *type = dev->type;
int error;
if (class) {
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static int device_add_attrs(struct device *dev)
static void device_remove_attrs(struct device *dev)
{
struct class *class = dev->class;
- struct device_type *type = dev->type;
+ const struct device_type *type = dev->type;
device_remove_groups(dev, dev->groups);
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index d4840511e877d..350ceda4de97a 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ struct device {
struct kobject kobj;
const char *init_name; /* initial name of the device */
- struct device_type *type;
+ const struct device_type *type;
struct mutex mutex; /* mutex to synchronize calls to
* its driver.
--
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