The content of the platform_data of a struct mfd_cell is simply passed on
to the platform_device_add_data() call in mfd_add_device() .
platform_device_add_data() already handles the data behind that pointer
as const and also uses kmemdup to create a copy of the data before
handing that copy over to the newly created platform-device,
so there is no reason to not extend this to struct mfd_cell, as the old
copy in the mfd_cell will be stale anyway.
This allows to pass structs gathered from of_device_get_match_data()
as platform-data to sub-devices - which is retrieved as const already.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mfd/core.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mfd/core.h b/include/linux/mfd/core.h
index e8bcad641d8c..faeea7abd688 100644
--- a/include/linux/mfd/core.h
+++ b/include/linux/mfd/core.h
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ struct mfd_cell {
int (*resume)(struct platform_device *dev);
/* platform data passed to the sub devices drivers */
- void *platform_data;
+ const void *platform_data;
size_t pdata_size;
/* Matches ACPI */
--
2.45.2
