Re: [PATCH] ACPI / dock: constify attribute_group structures.

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Aug 03 2017 - 18:17:11 EST


On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with attribute_group 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>

Somebody else sent an analogous patch earlier, so I'm going to take that one.

> ---
> drivers/acpi/dock.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
> index 0c00208..2305e1a 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
> @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ static ssize_t show_dock_type(struct device *dev,
> NULL
> };
>
> -static struct attribute_group dock_attribute_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group dock_attribute_group = {
> .attrs = dock_attributes
> };
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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