Re: [PATCH] ACPI / dock: constify attribute_group structure

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 2:28:46 AM CEST Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> Functions working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h>
> work with const attribute_group. These attribute_group structures do not
> change at runtime so mark them as const.
> 
> File size before:
>  text      data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  7902      3528      64   11494    2ce6 drivers/acpi/dock.o
> 
> File size after:
>  text      data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  7998      3432      64   11494    2ce6 drivers/acpi/dock.o
> 
> This change was made with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/dock.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
> index 0c00208..2305e1a 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
> @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ static struct attribute *dock_attributes[] = {
>  	NULL
>  };
>  
> -static struct attribute_group dock_attribute_group = {
> +static const struct attribute_group dock_attribute_group = {
>  	.attrs = dock_attributes
>  };
>  
> 

Applied, thanks!