Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type, move the spi_bus_type variable to be a constant structure as well, placing it into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime. Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-spi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi.c | 2 +- include/linux/spi/spi.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c index 8ead7acb99f3..6e962befc450 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static void spi_shutdown(struct device *dev) } } -struct bus_type spi_bus_type = { +const struct bus_type spi_bus_type = { .name = "spi", .dev_groups = spi_dev_groups, .match = spi_match_device, diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi.h b/include/linux/spi/spi.h index 255a0562aea5..f6c157dee55d 100644 --- a/include/linux/spi/spi.h +++ b/include/linux/spi/spi.h @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct spi_message; * INTERFACES between SPI master-side drivers and SPI slave protocol handlers, * and SPI infrastructure. */ -extern struct bus_type spi_bus_type; +extern const struct bus_type spi_bus_type; /** * struct spi_statistics - statistics for spi transfers -- 2.43.0