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| author | Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> | 2009-12-18 14:34:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-12-23 20:23:43 +0100 |
| commit | 26579ab70aa0e0ea434e6e100279d2f67c094431 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c9dfd6ed6209ecee088e3e6b600ebd7fba24acc | |
| parent | Doc/stable rules: add new cherry-pick logic (diff) | |
| download | linux-26579ab70aa0e0ea434e6e100279d2f67c094431.tar.xz linux-26579ab70aa0e0ea434e6e100279d2f67c094431.zip | |
Driver core: device_attribute parameters can often be const*
Most device_attributes are const, and are begging to be
put in a ro section. However, the create and remove
file interfaces were failing to propagate the const promise
which the only functions they call offer.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/core.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/device.h | 4 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index b245d524d568..a4ac2b98c613 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ struct device_attribute { const char *buf, size_t count); }; -int device_create_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *); -void device_remove_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *); +int device_create_file(struct device *, const struct device_attribute *); +void device_remove_file(struct device *, const struct device_attribute *); It also defines this helper for defining device attributes: @@ -316,8 +316,8 @@ DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store); Creation/Removal: -int device_create_file(struct device *device, struct device_attribute * attr); -void device_remove_file(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr); +int device_create_file(struct device *dev, const struct device_attribute * attr); +void device_remove_file(struct device *dev, const struct device_attribute * attr); - bus drivers (include/linux/device.h) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index f1290cbd1350..2fd9e611f8a6 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -446,7 +446,8 @@ struct kset *devices_kset; * @dev: device. * @attr: device attribute descriptor. */ -int device_create_file(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr) +int device_create_file(struct device *dev, + const struct device_attribute *attr) { int error = 0; if (dev) @@ -459,7 +460,8 @@ int device_create_file(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr) * @dev: device. * @attr: device attribute descriptor. */ -void device_remove_file(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr) +void device_remove_file(struct device *dev, + const struct device_attribute *attr) { if (dev) sysfs_remove_file(&dev->kobj, &attr->attr); diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index 2a73d9bcbc9c..aa5b3e66a147 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -319,9 +319,9 @@ struct device_attribute { struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) extern int __must_check device_create_file(struct device *device, - struct device_attribute *entry); + const struct device_attribute *entry); extern void device_remove_file(struct device *dev, - struct device_attribute *attr); + const struct device_attribute *attr); extern int __must_check device_create_bin_file(struct device *dev, struct bin_attribute *attr); extern void device_remove_bin_file(struct device *dev, |