Re: [PATCH] bus: arm-cci: constify attribute_group structures.

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Tue Jul 04 2017 - 07:37:08 EST


On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 01:16:55PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with const
> attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>

>From a quick scan, this looks sane to me:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

Suzuki, Punit, I guess one of you will queue this, assuming you're happy
with it.

Mark.

> ---
> drivers/bus/arm-cci.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c b/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> index c49da15..64c75d2 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/arm-cci.c
> @@ -1445,16 +1445,16 @@ static ssize_t pmu_cpumask_attr_show(struct device *dev,
> NULL,
> };
>
> -static struct attribute_group pmu_attr_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group pmu_attr_group = {
> .attrs = pmu_attrs,
> };
>
> -static struct attribute_group pmu_format_attr_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group pmu_format_attr_group = {
> .name = "format",
> .attrs = NULL, /* Filled in cci_pmu_init_attrs */
> };
>
> -static struct attribute_group pmu_event_attr_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group pmu_event_attr_group = {
> .name = "events",
> .attrs = NULL, /* Filled in cci_pmu_init_attrs */
> };
> --
> 1.9.1
>