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Commit aed65af1 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers: make device_type const 



The device_type structure does not contain data that changes
during usage and should be const. This allows devices to declare
the struct const.

I have patches to change all the subsystems, but need the infra
structure change first.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 695cca87

drivers/base/core.c

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@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static void device_remove_groups(struct device *dev, 
static int device_add_attrs(struct device *dev)

{

	struct class *class = dev->class;

	struct device_type *type = dev->type;

	const struct device_type *type = dev->type;

	int error;



	if (class) {
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static int device_add_attrs(struct device *dev) 
static void device_remove_attrs(struct device *dev)

{

	struct class *class = dev->class;

	struct device_type *type = dev->type;

	const struct device_type *type = dev->type;



	device_remove_groups(dev, dev->groups);

include/linux/device.h

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@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ struct device { 


	struct kobject kobj;

	const char		*init_name; /* initial name of the device */

	struct device_type	*type;

	const struct device_type *type;



	struct mutex		mutex;	/* mutex to synchronize calls to

					 * its driver.