On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:25:10PM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Will const a couple of functions and variables. This is extracted
> from grsecurity (with only a slight modification to limit a line
> to 80 chars).
Why don't they do it themselves? :^)
> Patch is against linux-acpi-2.6 git.
>
> Similar patches have been sent in the past but not applied,
> supposedly because they weren't sent to subsystem maintainers.
> (I may continue to send similar extracts to other subsystems)
>
> ---
> Signed-off-by: Hanno Boeck <hanno@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by should be before --- -- it must make into changelog.
> diff -Naurp linux-acpi-1//drivers/acpi/battery.c linux-acpi-2/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> --- linux-acpi-1//drivers/acpi/battery.c 2010-12-08 18:42:26.187000005 +0100
> +++ linux-acpi-2/drivers/acpi/battery.c 2010-12-08 18:42:53.595000204 +0100
> @@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ DECLARE_FILE_FUNCTIONS(alarm);
> }
>
> static struct battery_file {
> - struct file_operations ops;
> + const struct file_operations ops;
Whoa, does this work?
> mode_t mode;
> const char *name;
> } acpi_battery_file[] = {
It maybe better to call proc_create_date() by hand (and even handle
errors gracefully?
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