Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h
index 4f747a2..86b97ac 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h
+++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ bool ioat_cleanup_preamble(struct ioat_chan_common *chan,
 			   unsigned long *phys_complete);
 void ioat_kobject_add(struct ioatdma_device *device, struct kobj_type *type);
 void ioat_kobject_del(struct ioatdma_device *device);
-extern struct sysfs_ops ioat_sysfs_ops;
+extern const struct sysfs_ops ioat_sysfs_ops;
 extern struct ioat_sysfs_entry ioat_version_attr;
 extern struct ioat_sysfs_entry ioat_cap_attr;
 #endif /* IOATDMA_H */