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firmware: make fw->data const

In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static
kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so
that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than
having to copy it).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
David Woodhouse 17 years ago
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2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 1 1
      drivers/base/firmware_class.c
  2. 1 1
      include/linux/firmware.h

+ 1 - 1
drivers/base/firmware_class.c

@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ firmware_data_write(struct kobject *kobj, struct bin_attribute *bin_attr,
 	if (retval)
 		goto out;
 
-	memcpy(fw->data + offset, buffer, count);
+	memcpy((u8 *)fw->data + offset, buffer, count);
 
 	fw->size = max_t(size_t, offset + count, fw->size);
 	retval = count;

+ 1 - 1
include/linux/firmware.h

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 struct firmware {
 	size_t size;
-	u8 *data;
+	const u8 *data;
 };
 
 struct device;