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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2011-03-28 09:12:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-04-19 16:45:51 -0700 |
| commit | aed65af1cc2f6fc9ded5a8158f1405a02cf6d2ff (patch) | |
| tree | fd7051c0d25a6f463db9593a981ca3e558d17b4f | |
| parent | 695cca8763078c743417886e80af8ccb78bec9f2 (diff) | |
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.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 81b78ede37c..fb8130ceea1 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 d4840511e87..350ceda4de9 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. |