[PATCH 2/3] staging: greybus: authentication: make cap_class constant

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 05 2023 - 11:58:00 EST


Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
memory, making all 'class' structures to be declared at build time
placing them into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
allocated at load time.

Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: greybus-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/greybus/authentication.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/authentication.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/authentication.c
index 7e01790a4659..b67315641d18 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/authentication.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/authentication.c
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ struct gb_cap {
dev_t dev_num;
};

-static struct class *cap_class;
+static const struct class cap_class = {
+ .name = "gb_authenticate",
+};
+
static dev_t cap_dev_num;
static DEFINE_IDA(cap_minors_map);
static LIST_HEAD(cap_list);
@@ -336,7 +339,7 @@ int gb_cap_connection_init(struct gb_connection *connection)
goto err_remove_ida;

/* Add a soft link to the previously added char-dev within the bundle */
- cap->class_device = device_create(cap_class, cap->parent, cap->dev_num,
+ cap->class_device = device_create(&cap_class, cap->parent, cap->dev_num,
NULL, "gb-authenticate-%d", minor);
if (IS_ERR(cap->class_device)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(cap->class_device);
@@ -370,7 +373,7 @@ void gb_cap_connection_exit(struct gb_connection *connection)

cap = gb_connection_get_data(connection);

- device_destroy(cap_class, cap->dev_num);
+ device_destroy(&cap_class, cap->dev_num);
cdev_del(&cap->cdev);
ida_simple_remove(&cap_minors_map, MINOR(cap->dev_num));

@@ -402,9 +405,9 @@ int cap_init(void)
{
int ret;

- cap_class = class_create("gb_authenticate");
- if (IS_ERR(cap_class))
- return PTR_ERR(cap_class);
+ ret = class_register(&cap_class);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;

ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&cap_dev_num, 0, NUM_MINORS,
"gb_authenticate");
@@ -414,13 +417,13 @@ int cap_init(void)
return 0;

err_remove_class:
- class_destroy(cap_class);
+ class_unregister(&cap_class);
return ret;
}

void cap_exit(void)
{
unregister_chrdev_region(cap_dev_num, NUM_MINORS);
- class_destroy(cap_class);
+ class_unregister(&cap_class);
ida_destroy(&cap_minors_map);
}
--
2.42.0