perf: Add const qualifier to perf_pmu_register's 'name' arg

This allows us to use pdev->name for registering a PMU device.
IMO the name is not supposed to be changed anyway.

Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370339148-5566-1-git-send-email-mjonker@synopsys.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 74a4e14ab60b..4bc57d017fc8 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ struct pmu {
 
         struct device                   *dev;
         const struct attribute_group    **attr_groups;
-        char                            *name;
+        const char                      *name;
         int                             type;
 
         int * __percpu                  pmu_disable_count;
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ struct perf_output_handle {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
 
-extern int perf_pmu_register(struct pmu *pmu, char *name, int type);
+extern int perf_pmu_register(struct pmu *pmu, const char *name, int type);
 extern void perf_pmu_unregister(struct pmu *pmu);
 
 extern int perf_num_counters(void);