linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: constify attribute

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:49:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com
Cc:     jasowang@...hat.com, mingo@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: constify attribute_group structures.

From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:31:26 +0530

> attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/device.h> work with const
> attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> 
> File size before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    9968	   3168	     16	  13152	   3360	net/core/net-sysfs.o
> 
> File size After adding 'const':
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   10160	   2976	     16	  13152	   3360	net/core/net-sysfs.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>

Applied.