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| author | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2007-10-03 21:15:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2007-10-10 02:22:20 +0200 |
| commit | 1855256c497ecfefc730df6032243f26855ce52c (patch) | |
| tree | b73947f1a5e1b798e1dec068ac1cda25ae910bf6 /drivers/char | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.23 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1855256c497ecfefc730df6032243f26855ce52c.tar.xz linux-1855256c497ecfefc730df6032243f26855ce52c.zip | |
drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals
Three main sets of changes:
1) dmi_get_system_info() return value should have been marked const,
since callers should not be changing that data.
2) const-ify DMI internals, since DMI firmware tables should,
whenever possible, be marked const to ensure we never ever write to
that data area.
3) const-ify DMI API, to enable marking tables const where possible
in low-level drivers.
And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional
optimizations on the part of the compiler.
The bulk of the changes are #2 and #3, which are interrelated. #1 could
have been a separate patch, but it was so small compared to the others,
it was easier to roll it into this changeset.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/i8k.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 9 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/i8k.c b/drivers/char/i8k.c index 0289705967de..cd406416effd 100644 --- a/drivers/char/i8k.c +++ b/drivers/char/i8k.c @@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ struct smm_regs { unsigned int edi __attribute__ ((packed)); }; -static inline char *i8k_get_dmi_data(int field) +static inline const char *i8k_get_dmi_data(int field) { - char *dmi_data = dmi_get_system_info(field); + const char *dmi_data = dmi_get_system_info(field); return dmi_data && *dmi_data ? dmi_data : "?"; } diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index dd441ff4af56..7901d5f218ec 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -1965,10 +1965,10 @@ struct dmi_ipmi_data u8 slave_addr; }; -static int __devinit decode_dmi(struct dmi_header *dm, +static int __devinit decode_dmi(const struct dmi_header *dm, struct dmi_ipmi_data *dmi) { - u8 *data = (u8 *)dm; + const u8 *data = (const u8 *)dm; unsigned long base_addr; u8 reg_spacing; u8 len = dm->length; @@ -2091,13 +2091,14 @@ static __devinit void try_init_dmi(struct dmi_ipmi_data *ipmi_data) static void __devinit dmi_find_bmc(void) { - struct dmi_device *dev = NULL; + const struct dmi_device *dev = NULL; struct dmi_ipmi_data data; int rv; while ((dev = dmi_find_device(DMI_DEV_TYPE_IPMI, NULL, dev))) { memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data)); - rv = decode_dmi((struct dmi_header *) dev->device_data, &data); + rv = decode_dmi((const struct dmi_header *) dev->device_data, + &data); if (!rv) try_init_dmi(&data); } |