linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] x86: therm_throt: constify attribute

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Message-ID: <20170720155853.GD20712@nazgul.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:58:53 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, tony.luck@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] x86: therm_throt: constify attribute_group
 structures.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 05:00:37PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with attribute_group 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>
> ---
> change in v2:
>              Remove before/after size comparison from commit message.
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

This one and the next:

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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    Boris.

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