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authorPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>2009-12-18 15:34:21 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-23 11:23:43 -0800
commit099c2f21d8cf0724b85abb2c589d6276953781b7 (patch)
tree7f84a98f4b3658871408794a59d04995d5ced254
parent66ecb92be9eb579df93add22d19843e7869f168e (diff)
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Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const*
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 <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt4
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/driver.c4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h4
4 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt
index 60120fb3b96..d2cd6fb8ba9 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt
@@ -226,5 +226,5 @@ struct driver_attribute driver_attr_debug;
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 *);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index a4ac2b98c61..931c806642c 100644
--- 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 *);
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index f367885a764..90c9fff09ea 100644
--- 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);
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 10d74ce93a4..a62799f2ab0 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -166,9 +166,9 @@ struct driver_attribute driver_attr_##_name = \
__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,