Re: [PATCH 1/7] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: constify attribute_group structures.

From: Jonathan Woithe
Date: Tue Jul 11 2017 - 07:15:37 EST


On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 04:18:14PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> 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
> 7474 1205 24 8703 21ff drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.o
>
> File size After adding 'const':
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 7538 1141 24 8703 21ff drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx>

I have no objections to this patch - it seems like the sensible thing to do
in the interests of remaining consistent with the rest of the kernel.
Thanks Arvind.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards
jonathan

> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> index c1a8528..7973342 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ static ssize_t radios_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
> NULL
> };
>
> -static struct attribute_group fujitsu_pf_attribute_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group fujitsu_pf_attribute_group = {
> .attrs = fujitsu_pf_attributes
> };
>
> --