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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-03-28 20:12:52 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-04-20 03:45:51 +0400
commitaed65af1cc2f6fc9ded5a8158f1405a02cf6d2ff (patch)
treefd7051c0d25a6f463db9593a981ca3e558d17b4f
parent695cca8763078c743417886e80af8ccb78bec9f2 (diff)
downloadlinux-aed65af1cc2f6fc9ded5a8158f1405a02cf6d2ff.tar.xz
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>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 81b78ede37c4..fb8130ceea10 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 d4840511e877..350ceda4de97 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.