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| author | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2008-12-12 11:44:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-01-06 19:44:44 +0100 |
| commit | b8ac9fc0e8cda9f9776019c5b0464b0c6d2d4c90 (patch) | |
| tree | ec16e6a3844396dd67af3f87c915cb272570cc98 /Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | |
| parent | UIO: Documentation for UIO ioport info handling (diff) | |
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uio: make uio_info's name and version const
These are only ever assigned constant strings and never modified.
This was noticed because Wolfram Sang needed to cast the result of
of_get_property() in order to assign it to the name field of a struct
uio_info.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl index 6116b93608df..b787e4721c90 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl @@ -393,12 +393,12 @@ offset = N * getpagesize(); <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> -<varname>char *name</varname>: Required. The name of your driver as +<varname>const char *name</varname>: Required. The name of your driver as it will appear in sysfs. I recommend using the name of your module for this. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> -<varname>char *version</varname>: Required. This string appears in +<varname>const char *version</varname>: Required. This string appears in <filename>/sys/class/uio/uioX/version</filename>. </para></listitem> |