linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] staging: lustre: obdclass: linux: constify attribute

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:18:59 +0530
From:   Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
To:     oleg.drokin@...el.com, andreas.dilger@...el.com,
        jsimmons@...radead.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     john.hammond@...el.com, dmitry.eremin@...el.com, fan.yong@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] staging: lustre: obdclass: linux: constify attribute_group structures.

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.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c
index 9f5e829..eb88bd9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/linux/linux-module.c
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ static int obd_device_list_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 struct kobject *lustre_kobj;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lustre_kobj);
 
-static struct attribute_group lustre_attr_group = {
+static const struct attribute_group lustre_attr_group = {
 	.attrs = lustre_attrs,
 };
 
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1.9.1