Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: visorbus_main: constify attribute_group structures

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:45:52PM -0400, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> Functions working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/device.h>
> work with const attribute_group. These attribute_group structures do not
> change at runtime so mark them as const.
> 
> File size before:
>  text     data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  14216    7304     832   22352    5750
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.o
> 
> File size after:
>  text     data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  14408    7112     832   22352    5750
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.o
> 
> This change was made with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> index 1c785dd..bba10dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static struct attribute *channel_attrs[] = {
>  		NULL
>  };
>  
> -static struct attribute_group channel_attr_grp = {
> +static const struct attribute_group channel_attr_grp = {
>  		.name = "channel",
>  		.attrs = channel_attrs,
>  };
> @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static struct attribute *dev_attrs[] = {
>  		NULL
>  };
>  
> -static struct attribute_group dev_attr_grp = {
> +static const struct attribute_group dev_attr_grp = {
>  		.attrs = dev_attrs,
>  };
>  

Does not apply to my tree :(

sorry,

greg k-h