Driver core: bin_attribute parameters can often be const*

Many struct bin_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore
make the promise not to, which will let those descriptors
be put in a ro section.

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 2fd9e611f8a6..83afc8b8f27b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -472,7 +472,8 @@ void device_remove_file(struct device *dev,
  * @dev: device.
  * @attr: device binary attribute descriptor.
  */
-int device_create_bin_file(struct device *dev, struct bin_attribute *attr)
+int device_create_bin_file(struct device *dev,
+                           const struct bin_attribute *attr)
 {
         int error = -EINVAL;
         if (dev)
@@ -486,7 +487,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_bin_file);
  * @dev: device.
  * @attr: device binary attribute descriptor.
  */
-void device_remove_bin_file(struct device *dev, struct bin_attribute *attr)
+void device_remove_bin_file(struct device *dev,
+                            const struct bin_attribute *attr)
 {
         if (dev)
                 sysfs_remove_bin_file(&dev->kobj, attr);