The patch titled
Subject: ocfs2: constify attribute_group structures
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
ocfs2-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
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From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ocfs2: constify attribute_group structures
attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with const
attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
File size before:
text data bss dec hex filename
4402 1088 38 5528 1598 fs/ocfs2/stackglue.o
File size After adding 'const':
text data bss dec hex filename
4442 1024 38 5504 1580 fs/ocfs2/stackglue.o
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cab4e59b4918db3ed2ec77073a4cb310c4429ef5.1498808026.git.arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c~ocfs2-constify-attribute_group-structures fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
--- a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c~ocfs2-constify-attribute_group-structures
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ static struct attribute *ocfs2_attrs[] =
NULL,
};
-static struct attribute_group ocfs2_attr_group = {
+static const struct attribute_group ocfs2_attr_group = {
.attrs = ocfs2_attrs,
};
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx are
ocfs2-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
kernel-ksysfs-constify-attribute_group-structures.patch
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