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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:20:30 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Arvind Yadav <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, matt@...eblueprint.co.uk, tglx@...utronix.de,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com,
        mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com
Subject: [tip:efi/core] firmware/efi/esrt: Constify attribute_group
 structures

Commit-ID:  f1a5b53570001b1bcbf890ac6c4be1db99f8cc28
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f1a5b53570001b1bcbf890ac6c4be1db99f8cc28
Author:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:49:47 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:43:51 +0200

firmware/efi/esrt: Constify attribute_group structures

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>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170818194947.19347-15-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
index 8554d7a..bd7ed3c 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static umode_t esrt_attr_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj,
 	return attr->mode;
 }
 
-static struct attribute_group esrt_attr_group = {
+static const struct attribute_group esrt_attr_group = {
 	.attrs = esrt_attrs,
 	.is_visible = esrt_attr_is_visible,
 };