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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>
Stephen Rothwell 16 år sedan
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2 ändrade filer med 4 tillägg och 4 borttagningar
  1. 2 2
      Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
  2. 2 2
      include/linux/uio_driver.h

+ 2 - 2
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>
 

+ 2 - 2
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;