drivers: make device_type const

The device_type structure does not contain data that changes
during usage and should be const. This allows devices to declare
the struct const.

I have patches to change all the subsystems, but need the infra
structure change first.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index d4840511e87..350ceda4de9 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ struct device {
 
         struct kobject kobj;
         const char              *init_name; /* initial name of the device */
-        struct device_type      *type;
+        const struct device_type *type;
 
         struct mutex            mutex;  /* mutex to synchronize calls to
                                          * its driver.