Current state of the 'const bin_attribute' constification

From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Fri Feb 14 2025 - 11:36:42 EST


Hi Greg,

most of the patches for the 'const bin_attribute' work have gone in
through the maintainer trees. A few series have not been picked up:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250114-sysfs-const-bin_attr-cxl-v1-1-5afa23fe2a52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250125-sysfs-const-bin_attr-dmi-v2-0-ece1895936f4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216-sysfs-const-bin_attr-drm-v1-0-210f2b36b9bf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241215-sysfs-const-bin_attr-fsi-v1-1-b717f76a0146@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216-sysfs-const-bin_attr-habanalabs-v1-1-b35463197efb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241222-sysfs-const-bin_attr-input-v1-1-1229dbe5ae71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241215-sysfs-const-bin_attr-mokvar-v1-1-d5a3d1fff8d1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241215-sysfs-const-bin_attr-pcmcia-v1-1-ebb82e47d834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216-sysfs-const-bin_attr-powerpc-v1-0-bbed8906f476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250114-sysfs-const-bin_attr-qemu_fw_cfg-v1-1-76f525a3ee72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216-sysfs-const-bin_attr-rapidio-v1-1-0f47f4719683@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241122-sysfs-const-bin_attr-rci2-v1-1-3db1ec9aa203@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Do you want to take these directly?

Then I can send the removal of the transition machinery.
There is also a potential conflict in linux-next with Kexec Handover [0],
but that will be trivial to resolve and hopefully they fix it in their v2.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ae80c1b9-bafb-401c-9789-37a774c702c0@xxxxxxxx/