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| author | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2008-12-12 11:44:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-01-06 10:44:44 -0800 |
| commit | b8ac9fc0e8cda9f9776019c5b0464b0c6d2d4c90 (patch) | |
| tree | ec16e6a3844396dd67af3f87c915cb272570cc98 | |
| parent | a2ab3d30005cdce45c2c7e31ad6743ad7975609a (diff) | |
uio: make uio_info's name and version const
These are only ever assigned constant strings and never modified.
This was noticed because Wolfram Sang needed to cast the result of
of_get_property() in order to assign it to the name field of a struct
uio_info.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/uio_driver.h | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl index 6116b93608d..b787e4721c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl @@ -393,12 +393,12 @@ offset = N * getpagesize(); <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> -<varname>char *name</varname>: Required. The name of your driver as +<varname>const char *name</varname>: Required. The name of your driver as it will appear in sysfs. I recommend using the name of your module for this. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> -<varname>char *version</varname>: Required. This string appears in +<varname>const char *version</varname>: Required. This string appears in <filename>/sys/class/uio/uioX/version</filename>. </para></listitem> diff --git a/include/linux/uio_driver.h b/include/linux/uio_driver.h index 20be327bfbb..a0bb6bd2e5c 100644 --- a/include/linux/uio_driver.h +++ b/include/linux/uio_driver.h @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ struct uio_device; */ struct uio_info { struct uio_device *uio_dev; - char *name; - char *version; + const char *name; + const char *version; struct uio_mem mem[MAX_UIO_MAPS]; struct uio_port port[MAX_UIO_PORT_REGIONS]; long irq; |