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counter: constify the struct device_type usage

Message ID 20240219-device_cleanup-counter-v1-1-24d0316ae815@marliere.net (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere
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Series counter: constify the struct device_type usage | expand

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Ricardo B. Marliere Feb. 19, 2024, 7:52 p.m. UTC
Since commit aed65af1cc2f ("drivers: make device_type const"), the driver
core can properly handle constant struct device_type. Move the
counter_device_type variable to be a constant structure as well, placing it
into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere <ricardo@marliere.net>
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 drivers/counter/counter-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


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base-commit: b6dce0452a0276339392bc5eeb722370a466ba25
change-id: 20240219-device_cleanup-counter-ca191517686c

Best regards,

Comments

William Breathitt Gray Feb. 26, 2024, 5:46 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:52:52 -0300, Ricardo B. Marliere wrote:
> Since commit aed65af1cc2f ("drivers: make device_type const"), the driver
> core can properly handle constant struct device_type. Move the
> counter_device_type variable to be a constant structure as well, placing it
> into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime.
> 
> 

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] counter: constify the struct device_type usage
      commit: 3bb282ef1149a08a94bc5321b758825bc99c84c0

William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@linaro.org>
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/counter/counter-core.c b/drivers/counter/counter-core.c
index 29df0985f2ba..893b4f0726d2 100644
--- a/drivers/counter/counter-core.c
+++ b/drivers/counter/counter-core.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@  static void counter_device_release(struct device *dev)
 	kfree(container_of(counter, struct counter_device_allochelper, counter));
 }
 
-static struct device_type counter_device_type = {
+static const struct device_type counter_device_type = {
 	.name = "counter_device",
 	.release = counter_device_release,
 };