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/fs/sysfs/bin.c b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
index 60c702bc10ae..a0a500af24a1 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/bin.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
@@ -483,7 +483,8 @@ void unmap_bin_file(struct sysfs_dirent *attr_sd)
  *      @attr:  attribute descriptor.
  */
 
-int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct bin_attribute * attr)
+int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
+                          const struct bin_attribute *attr)
 {
         BUG_ON(!kobj || !kobj->sd || !attr);
 
@@ -497,7 +498,8 @@ int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct bin_attribute * attr)
  *      @attr:  attribute descriptor.
  */
 
-void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct bin_attribute * attr)
+void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
+                           const struct bin_attribute *attr)
 {
         sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj->sd, attr->attr.name);
 }