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, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 9d68fed50f11..cfa83083a2d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -99,8 +99,9 @@ int __must_check sysfs_chmod_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
 void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject *kobj, const struct attribute *attr);
 
 int __must_check sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
-                                       struct bin_attribute *attr);
-void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct bin_attribute *attr);
+                                       const struct bin_attribute *attr);
+void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
+                           const struct bin_attribute *attr);
 
 int __must_check sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
                                    const char *name);
@@ -175,13 +176,13 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject *kobj,
 }
 
 static inline int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
-                                        struct bin_attribute *attr)
+                                        const struct bin_attribute *attr)
 {
         return 0;
 }
 
 static inline void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj,
-                                         struct bin_attribute *attr)
+                                         const struct bin_attribute *attr)
 {
 }