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authorPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>2009-12-18 15:34:20 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-23 11:23:43 -0800
commit66ecb92be9eb579df93add22d19843e7869f168e (patch)
tree60a8c4ecfd1ccb0743a137ecfbd972888dbd34ce /drivers/base
parent26579ab70aa0e0ea434e6e100279d2f67c094431 (diff)
downloadlinux-66ecb92be9eb579df93add22d19843e7869f168e.tar.gz
Driver core: bin_attribute parameters can often be const*
Many struct bin_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore
make the promise not to, which will let those descriptors
be put in a ro section.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 2fd9e611f8a6..83afc8b8f27b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -472,7 +472,8 @@ void device_remove_file(struct device *dev,
  * @dev: device.
  * @attr: device binary attribute descriptor.
  */
-int device_create_bin_file(struct device *dev, struct bin_attribute *attr)
+int device_create_bin_file(struct device *dev,
+			   const struct bin_attribute *attr)
 {
 	int error = -EINVAL;
 	if (dev)
@@ -486,7 +487,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_bin_file);
  * @dev: device.
  * @attr: device binary attribute descriptor.
  */
-void device_remove_bin_file(struct device *dev, struct bin_attribute *attr)
+void device_remove_bin_file(struct device *dev,
+			    const struct bin_attribute *attr)
 {
 	if (dev)
 		sysfs_remove_bin_file(&dev->kobj, attr);