Commit b8ac9fc0 authored by Stephen Rothwell's avatar Stephen Rothwell Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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uio: make uio_info's name and version const 



These are only ever assigned constant strings and never modified.

This was noticed because Wolfram Sang needed to cast the result of
of_get_property() in order to assign it to the name field of a struct
uio_info.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent a2ab3d30

Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl

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<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>

<varname>char *name</varname>: Required. The name of your driver as

<varname>const char *name</varname>: Required. The name of your driver as

it will appear in sysfs. I recommend using the name of your module for this.

</para></listitem>



<listitem><para>

<varname>char *version</varname>: Required. This string appears in

<varname>const char *version</varname>: Required. This string appears in

<filename>/sys/class/uio/uioX/version</filename>.

</para></listitem>

include/linux/uio_driver.h

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@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ struct uio_device; 
 */

struct uio_info {

	struct uio_device	*uio_dev;

	char			*name;

	char			*version;

	const char		*name;

	const char		*version;

	struct uio_mem		mem[MAX_UIO_MAPS];

	struct uio_port		port[MAX_UIO_PORT_REGIONS];

	long			irq;

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