linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen: constify all instances of "struct attribute

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Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:27:57 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"xen-devel" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: constify all instances of "struct
 attribute_group"

>>> On 26.02.12 at 17:02, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:47:57AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> The functions these get passed to have been taking pointers to const
>> since at least 2.6.16.
> 
> What is this based on? I get:

Plain 3.3-rc4.

> HEAD is now at b01543d... Linux 3.3-rc4
> konrad@...nom:~/ssd/linux$ patch -p1 < /tmp/jan-1
> patching file drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 97.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 210.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 340.
> 3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
> drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c.rej
> patching file drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 207.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c.rej
> patching file drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 488.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
> drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c.rej

Is /tmp/jan-1 perhaps suffering whitespace corruption (which would
have happened at your end, as I can take the tail of your response,
remove the reply quotation, and apply it successfully), even though
I don't think we had problems of this kind in the past? I'll attach the
patch here, just in case.

Jan

>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
>> 
>> ---
>>  drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c  |    6 +++---
>>  drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c     |    2 +-
>>  drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c |    2 +-
>>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> 
>> --- 3.3-rc4/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
>> +++ 3.3-rc4-xen-const-attribute_group/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
>> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static struct attribute *version_attrs[]
>>  	NULL
>>  };
>>  
>> -static struct attribute_group version_group = {
>> +static const struct attribute_group version_group = {
>>  	.name = "version",
>>  	.attrs = version_attrs,
>>  };
>> @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static struct attribute *xen_compile_att
>>  	NULL
>>  };
>>  
>> -static struct attribute_group xen_compilation_group = {
>> +static const struct attribute_group xen_compilation_group = {
>>  	.name = "compilation",
>>  	.attrs = xen_compile_attrs,
>>  };
>> @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static struct attribute *xen_properties_
>>  	NULL
>>  };
>>  
>> -static struct attribute_group xen_properties_group = {
>> +static const struct attribute_group xen_properties_group = {
>>  	.name = "properties",
>>  	.attrs = xen_properties_attrs,
>>  };
>> --- 3.3-rc4/drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c
>> +++ 3.3-rc4-xen-const-attribute_group/drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c
>> @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static struct attribute *balloon_info_at
>>  	NULL
>>  };
>>  
>> -static struct attribute_group balloon_info_group = {
>> +static const struct attribute_group balloon_info_group = {
>>  	.name = "info",
>>  	.attrs = balloon_info_attrs
>>  };
>> --- 3.3-rc4/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
>> +++ 3.3-rc4-xen-const-attribute_group/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
>> @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static struct attribute *selfballoon_att
>>  	NULL
>>  };
>>  
>> -static struct attribute_group selfballoon_group = {
>> +static const struct attribute_group selfballoon_group = {
>>  	.name = "selfballoon",
>>  	.attrs = selfballoon_attrs
>>  };
>> 
>> 




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