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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
parent26579ab70aa0e0ea434e6e100279d2f67c094431 (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c6
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/bin.c6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysfs.h9
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 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);
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/bin.c b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
index 60c702bc10ae..a0a500af24a1 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/bin.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
@@ -483,7 +483,8 @@ void unmap_bin_file(struct sysfs_dirent *attr_sd)
* @attr: attribute descriptor.
*/
-int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct bin_attribute * attr)
+int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
+ const struct bin_attribute *attr)
{
BUG_ON(!kobj || !kobj->sd || !attr);
@@ -497,7 +498,8 @@ int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct bin_attribute * attr)
* @attr: attribute descriptor.
*/
-void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct bin_attribute * attr)
+void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
+ const struct bin_attribute *attr)
{
sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj->sd, attr->attr.name);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index aa5b3e66a147..10d74ce93a46 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -319,13 +319,13 @@ struct device_attribute {
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store)
extern int __must_check device_create_file(struct device *device,
- const struct device_attribute *entry);
+ const struct device_attribute *entry);
extern void device_remove_file(struct device *dev,
const struct device_attribute *attr);
extern int __must_check device_create_bin_file(struct device *dev,
- struct bin_attribute *attr);
+ const struct bin_attribute *attr);
extern void device_remove_bin_file(struct device *dev,
- struct bin_attribute *attr);
+ const struct bin_attribute *attr);
extern int device_schedule_callback_owner(struct device *dev,
void (*func)(struct device *dev), struct module *owner);
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 9d68fed50f11..cfa83083a2d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -99,8 +99,9 @@ int __must_check sysfs_chmod_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject *kobj, const struct attribute *attr);
int __must_check sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
- struct bin_attribute *attr);
-void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct bin_attribute *attr);
+ const struct bin_attribute *attr);
+void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
+ const struct bin_attribute *attr);
int __must_check sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
const char *name);
@@ -175,13 +176,13 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject *kobj,
}
static inline int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
- struct bin_attribute *attr)
+ const struct bin_attribute *attr)
{
return 0;
}
static inline void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
- struct bin_attribute *attr)
+ const struct bin_attribute *attr)
{
}