[PATCH v2] staging: pi433: make pi433_class constant

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 05 2023 - 11:58:30 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.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2 : properly call class_unregister() in module exit

drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
index 58887619b83f..0ec3130225db 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ static DEFINE_IDR(pi433_idr);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(minor_lock); /* Protect idr accesses */
static struct dentry *root_dir; /* debugfs root directory for the driver */

-static struct class *pi433_class; /* mainly for udev to create /dev/pi433 */
+/* mainly for udev to create /dev/pi433 */
+static const struct class pi433_class = {
+ .name = "pi433",
+};

/*
* tx config is instance specific
@@ -1259,7 +1262,7 @@ static int pi433_probe(struct spi_device *spi)

/* create device */
device->devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(pi433_dev), device->minor);
- device->dev = device_create(pi433_class,
+ device->dev = device_create(&pi433_class,
&spi->dev,
device->devt,
device,
@@ -1315,7 +1318,7 @@ static int pi433_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
cdev_failed:
kthread_stop(device->tx_task_struct);
send_thread_failed:
- device_destroy(pi433_class, device->devt);
+ device_destroy(&pi433_class, device->devt);
device_create_failed:
pi433_free_minor(device);
minor_failed:
@@ -1342,7 +1345,7 @@ static void pi433_remove(struct spi_device *spi)

kthread_stop(device->tx_task_struct);

- device_destroy(pi433_class, device->devt);
+ device_destroy(&pi433_class, device->devt);

cdev_del(device->cdev);

@@ -1398,18 +1401,18 @@ static int __init pi433_init(void)
if (status < 0)
return status;

- pi433_class = class_create("pi433");
- if (IS_ERR(pi433_class)) {
+ status = class_register(&pi433_class);
+ if (status) {
unregister_chrdev(MAJOR(pi433_dev),
pi433_spi_driver.driver.name);
- return PTR_ERR(pi433_class);
+ return status;
}

root_dir = debugfs_create_dir(KBUILD_MODNAME, NULL);

status = spi_register_driver(&pi433_spi_driver);
if (status < 0) {
- class_destroy(pi433_class);
+ class_unregister(&pi433_class);
unregister_chrdev(MAJOR(pi433_dev),
pi433_spi_driver.driver.name);
}
@@ -1422,7 +1425,7 @@ module_init(pi433_init);
static void __exit pi433_exit(void)
{
spi_unregister_driver(&pi433_spi_driver);
- class_destroy(pi433_class);
+ class_unregister(&pi433_class);
unregister_chrdev(MAJOR(pi433_dev), pi433_spi_driver.driver.name);
debugfs_remove(root_dir);
}
--
2.42.0