Make this const as is is only passed as an argument to the function device_create_file and device_remove_file and the corresponding arguments are of type const. Done using Coccinelle Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 5bdf923..49d7763 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static ssize_t pid_show(struct device *dev, return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", task_pid_nr(nbd->task_recv)); } -static struct device_attribute pid_attr = { +static const struct device_attribute pid_attr = { .attr = { .name = "pid", .mode = S_IRUGO}, .show = pid_show, }; -- 1.9.1