linux-kernel - Re: hwmon: nct7802: constify attribute

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Date:   Sat, 8 Jul 2017 08:54:13 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Cc:     jdelvare@...e.com, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hwmon: nct7802: constify attribute_group structures.

On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 10:36:33AM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with const
> attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> 
> File size before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    6655	    304	      0	   6959	   1b2f	drivers/hwmon/hwmon.o
> 
> File size After adding 'const':
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    6703	    240	      0	   6943	   1b1f	drivers/hwmon/hwmon.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>

Applied to hwmon-next.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/nct7802.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/nct7802.c b/drivers/hwmon/nct7802.c
> index 12b94b0..2876c18 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/nct7802.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/nct7802.c
> @@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ static umode_t nct7802_temp_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj,
>  	return attr->mode;
>  }
>  
> -static struct attribute_group nct7802_temp_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group nct7802_temp_group = {
>  	.attrs = nct7802_temp_attrs,
>  	.is_visible = nct7802_temp_is_visible,
>  };
> @@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ static umode_t nct7802_in_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj,
>  	return attr->mode;
>  }
>  
> -static struct attribute_group nct7802_in_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group nct7802_in_group = {
>  	.attrs = nct7802_in_attrs,
>  	.is_visible = nct7802_in_is_visible,
>  };
> @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ static umode_t nct7802_fan_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj,
>  	return attr->mode;
>  }
>  
> -static struct attribute_group nct7802_fan_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group nct7802_fan_group = {
>  	.attrs = nct7802_fan_attrs,
>  	.is_visible = nct7802_fan_is_visible,
>  };
> @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ static umode_t nct7802_fan_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj,
>  	NULL
>  };
>  
> -static struct attribute_group nct7802_pwm_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group nct7802_pwm_group = {
>  	.attrs = nct7802_pwm_attrs,
>  };
>  
> @@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ static SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR(pwm3_auto_point4_pwm, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
>  	NULL
>  };
>  
> -static struct attribute_group nct7802_auto_point_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group nct7802_auto_point_group = {
>  	.attrs = nct7802_auto_point_attrs,
>  };
>