Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: visorbus: constify attribute_group structures.

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jul 17 2017 - 06:45:33 EST


On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 02:55:37PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work
> with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchipset.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Why not just use the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() macro for these? Or is there
something that is preventing that?

thanks,

greg k-h