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authorPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>2006-10-20 10:28:26 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-20 21:26:36 +0400
commit1ba0ce6f9c19a8573832e14b418dc835dc6f3bbd (patch)
treeb5747ff835cd3e62339a2547df4d68a0c39d7271 /arch/um
parentf43e6a5a72566675da3581dc0d7076042e6701f7 (diff)
downloadlinux-1ba0ce6f9c19a8573832e14b418dc835dc6f3bbd.tar.xz
[PATCH] uml: mmapper - remove just added but wrong "const" attribute
When enabling the mmapper driver I got warnings because this "const" miscdevice structure is passed to function as non-const pointer; unlike struct tty_operations, however, I verified that misc_{de,}register _do_ modify their parameter, so this const attribute must be removed. Since the purpose of the change was to guarantee that no lock was needed, add a comment to prove this differently. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c
index 9a3b5daf6250..df3516e47d4d 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.c
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ static const struct file_operations mmapper_fops = {
.release = mmapper_release,
};
-static const struct miscdevice mmapper_dev = {
+/* No locking needed - only used (and modified) by below initcall and exitcall. */
+static struct miscdevice mmapper_dev = {
.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
.name = "mmapper",
.fops = &mmapper_fops