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authorPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>2009-12-18 15:34:19 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-23 11:23:43 -0800
commit26579ab70aa0e0ea434e6e100279d2f67c094431 (patch)
tree1c9dfd6ed6209ecee088e3e6b600ebd7fba24acc
parent8e9b9362266dd16255473c080d846b13e27247bf (diff)
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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.txt8
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h4
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index b245d52..a4ac2b9 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 f1290cb..2fd9e61 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 2a73d9b..aa5b3e66 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,
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